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Brilliant thank you for that. I wasn't sure who else had been doing stuff with this substance or how much was generally known about radioactive materials at the time but this makes it clear how the Curie's came to work more with this material. Thank you.

Brilliant, thank you!

Thank you SteamKing, most interesting. I wonder what led the Curies to pick upon pitchblend as the substance they would investigate - ok, it was clogging up mines there was so much of it and a plentiful supply of whatever they wanted to text was clearly an important factor, but still, what would...

Ah, righty ho - very interesting, thank you!

Hi I'm just watching a programme about the life and work of Marie Curie who's just found whopping quantities of radiation in ground up pitchblend. I understand this is now used as a source of uranium, but at the time of her getting hold of sackfuls of it, what was it used for in her day? I'm...