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IT may interest some to know that radium destroys vegetable matter. I happened to replace the usual mica plates, used to keep in the small quantity of radium in its ebonite box, with a piece of cambric, so as to permit the whole of the emanations to pass out, mica stopping the alpha; rays.
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BLYTHSWOOD Destructive Action of Radium. Nature 69, 317 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069317d0
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