Definitions for radiums

radiums ra·di·um

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

Radiums is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 255 anagrams from letters in radiums (adimrsu).

Definitions for radiums

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 radiums

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

Examples for radiums

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

What the discovery of radium implied was only gradually realised.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for radiums
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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