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Why Marie Curie’s coffin lined with lead and still remains radioactive even after 100 years
Despite her discoveries of polonium and radium, prolonged exposure to radiation caused her death ... her laboratory notebooks are stored in lead-lined boxes at the Bibliothèque Nationale in ...
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Physicist’s Body Was So Radioactive Had to Be Buried in Lead-Lined Coffin
How Radiation Impacted Curie’s Body Radioactive to a Lead-Lined Coffin The lead-lined coffin in which Curie lay for decades serves as a stark symbol of the scientific community’s awakening to ...
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Why Marie Curie’s coffin lined with lead and still remains radioactive even after 100 years
The extended duration of radiation exposure had a lasting effect ... Objects like her laboratory notebooks are stored in lead-lined boxes at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.