Radon, a radioactive gas, is creeping into homes across Ohio. Here's how you can test for and remediate your home for the gas ...

Radon is formed naturally when radioactive metals uranium, thorium, and radium break down in rocks, soil, and groundwater, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency explains.

Radon exposure is believed to have killed more than 6,000 Utahns in past 30 years. Officials are proposing measures to reduce the risks associated with what they say is Utah's No. 1 geological hazard.

Radon is a naturally forming, radioactive gas. It is formed when uranium, radium, or thorium metals that forms naturally when uranium, thorium, or radium break down.

Radon is an odorless gas that is released from naturally decaying radium and uranium in the soil. Radium is radioactive and was discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie in a “pitchblende” (a ...

"We find that certain radon isotopes vibrate between a pear shape and its mirror image. This is in contrast to radium, where we have previously shown that some radium isotopes are permanently ...

Radon was detected in two districts schools in 2017 in testing ordered by officials after radium was found in groundwater samples from shallow monitoring wells on the Bethpage High School campus.

University of Liverpool. "Radon inferior to radium for electric dipole moments searches." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 June 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 06 / 190606133814.htm>.

BEFORE the protection problems of personnel exposed to radium, radon and cobalt-60 are considered it seems advisable to review some of the terminology that is generally used in conjunction with rad ...