Definitions for radium

radium ra·di·um

Spelling: [rey-dee-uh m]
IPA: /ˈreɪ di əm/

Radium is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in radium (adimru).

Definitions for radium

noun

  1. Chemistry. a highly radioactive metallic element whose decay yields radon gas and alpha rays. Symbol: Ra; atomic weight: 226; atomic number: 88.
  2. a lustrous rayon or silk fabric constructed in plain weave and used in women's apparel, lining, and drapery.

Origin of radium

1895-1900; New Latin, equivalent to Latin rad(ius) ray (see radius) + -ium -ium

Examples for radium

But I'd advise you to keep for yourself that information on the Pool of radium.

If brains were radium, you couldn't make a flicker on a scintillation counter.

What the discovery of radium implied was only gradually realised.

Rntgen-rays and radium have descended from the sphere of miracles.

But why, if you could pick me off the Earth, do you not draw the radium ores in the same way?

Maget, his brain reeling, yet was beginning to grasp what radium did to one.

What followed on the discovery of radium and of the X-rays we shall see.

That radium stuff is what makes the funny light in that mine, then?

This, Professor Gurlone told him, was the effect of the radium rays.

They must be protected from the direct rays of the radium, which is refined.

Word Value for radium
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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