Db Dubnis 105 (268) 5 7 d 105 [Rn] 5f14 6d3 7s2 2 8 18 32 32 11 2 None Unknown 1 5.56 h 8.33h AlphaEmission TransitionMetal, Metal, Radioactive, Synthetic HA-ni-em Synthetic radioactive metal. It has no significant commercial applications. Made by bombarding californium-249 with a beam of nitrogen-15 eeczRrDoL_M Dubnium

Radium was discovered by Marie Curie and Pierre Curie in 1898.

They extracted the radium compound from a uraninite sample.

Radium was isolated in its metallic state by Marie Curie and André-Louis Debierne in 1910 through the electrolysis of radium chloride by using a mercury cathode and distilling in an atmosphere of hydrogen gas. From the Latin word radius meaning ray 105 1967 Workers at the Nuclear Institute at Dubna, and the University of California, Berkeley, USA. USSR, United States The origin of the name dubnium is the Joint Nuclear Institute at "Dubna", an institute heavily involved in the search for heavy elements

Radium is highly radioactive and carcinogenic

Radium imparts a carmine red color to a flame

Radium was formerly used in self-luminous paints for watches, nuclear panels, aircraft switches, clocks, and instrument dials.

Radium chloride was used in medicine to produce radon gas which in turn was used as a cancer treatment.

The isotope ²²³Ra is currently under investigation for use in medicine as a cancer treatment of bone metastasis.