Radium chloride radium chloride is weakly paramagnetic with a magnetic susceptibility of 1.05. It also differs from barium chloride by the flame color, which is red as opposed to green for barium chloride. Radium chloride is still used for the initial stages of the separation of radium from barium during the extraction of radium from pitchblende. The large quantities of material involved (tonnes of ore for milligrams of radium) favour this less costly (but less efficient) method over those based on radium bromide or radium chromate (used for the later stages of the separation). It was also used in medicine to produce
Radium Cruiser the Mackenzie River for almost eight months of the year. Like her sister ship, "Radium Express", she was smaller than the "Radium King" and "Radium Queen", just long. In 2005 Atomic Energy of Canada published a study of the toxic legacy of the mining of radioactive ore at Port Radium. According to the report all but one of the surviving vessels of the Radium line were found to be free of contamination, with the exception of the "Radium Gilbert", but the disposition of the "Radium Cruiser" was not known. Radium Cruiser The Radium Cruiser was a Russel Brothers tugboat operated