Secret Elements
What is the number of element did Marie discovered in December 1898?
Element 88 (Radium)
What is the nuclear balance?
Z=92
What was the Gamma Decay used for?
the nucleus releases excess energy in the form of high-frequency, highly penetrating photon electromagnetic radiation (Gamma Rays)
Who did she married in 1895?
Pierre Curie
Where did Marie Curie died?
Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland(Then part of the Russian Empire)
What is Polonium?
She names this element after her beloved home country.
What is Pitchblende?
This raw black mineral ore was the source material for the Curies' discoveries.
What is the Atom?
Marie proved radiation intensity depends strictly on this subatomic component.
To this day what was she remains the only person—man or woman—to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields?
The sole Distinction
When was she born?
November 7, 1867
What did she spend 4 years on?
Spent 4 years boiling tons of pitchblende in a leaky shed
What was the elements unlocked the nucleus?
Carbon-14
What was Alpha decay?
The nucleus ejects an alpha particle (composed of 2 protons and 2 neutrons, identical to a Helium-4 nucleus), dropping its atomic mass by 4 and atomic number by 2
What was she best known was?
The first female professor
Where was she born?
Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (Russian Empire)
What is Radium?
This element's name originates from the Latin word for a beam of light.
What is Piezoelectric Quartz?
Pierre's unique scale used this material to generate current via applied weight.
What are Beta particles?
This type of high-energy radiation consists of fast-moving electrons or positrons.
What was her final resting place?
First woman buried in Paris's Panthéon on her own merits
What caused her death?
Aplastic anemia from radiation exposure.
What is the atomic weight?
226
What curie unit?
The Curie (CI)
What is Energy value
The mass of the resulting decayed nucleus is slightly less than the mass of the original parent nucleus.
What was her family legacy?
Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize
When did she died?
July 4, 1934