Marie Curie · Science

Hunting Two New Elements

The years of brutal labour by which Curie chased two invisible elements out of tons of ore, guided only by the glow of their radiation.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Curie used radioactivity itself as a chemical detector. Explain how an invisible property let her track down an element nobody had seen, in your own words.

Leads to Dmitri Mendeleev.

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