Radium Orthophosphates

Description

The main concern about radium as a phosphate has been its intense radioactivity (²²⁶Ra) as a component of phosphate-rock minerals. Little or no description of these phosphate compounds can be found in the scientific literature. Yet, the chemistry of Ra should closely resemble that of the corresponding barium salts. Therefore, the following descriptions are those which will form the desired radium phosphate compound, even though these salts have apparently not been prepared heretofore nor have their physical and chemical properties been described.