You Can Only Analyze The Data You

When One Studies Strongly Radioactive Substances Special Precautions Must Be Taken If One Wishes To Be Able To Take Delicate Measurements. The Various Objects Used In A Chemical Laboratory And Those Used In A Chemical Laboratory, And Those Which Serve For Experiments In Physics, Become Radioactive In A Short Time And Act Upon Photographic Plates Through Black Paper. Dust, The Air Of The Room, And One's Clothes All Become Radioactive.

We Believe The Substance We Have Extracted From Pitchblende Contains A Metal Not Yet Observed, Related To Bismuth By Its Analytical Properties. If The Existence Of This New Metal Is Confirmed We Propose To Call It Polonium, From The Name Of The Original Country Of One Of Us.

This Means That We Have Here An Entirely Separate Kind Of Chemistry For Which The Current Tool We Use Is The Electrometer, Not The Balance, And Which We Might Well Call The Chemistry Of The Imponderable.

We Must Have Perseverance And Above All Confidence In Ourselves.

Radium Is Not To Enrich Any One. It Is An Element; It Is For All People.