Footnotes

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Chapter 2. MARIE (Iron)

1 These metal-specific degree readings are still known today as “Curie points.”

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Chapter 5. ANDRÉ (Actinium)

1 The currently accepted value is 226.0254.

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Chapter 10. SYBIL (Thorium)

1 The currently accepted figure is 3.825.

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Chapter 14. SUZANNE (Platinum and Iridium)

1 The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry currently recognizes thirty-three isotopes of radium.

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Chapter 15. MAURICE (Ionium)

1 Sixteen hundred years is the value still accepted today as the half-life of radium-226.

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Bibliography

1 Journal articles (in Comptes rendus, Le Radium, Nature, Science, et al.) are not included here for space reasons.

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