Half Lives by Lucy Jane Santos

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/187357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Half Lives Author: Lucy Jane Santos Narrator: Deirdre Whelan Format: mp3 Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins Release date: 07-06-21 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 69 ratings Genres: Chemistry Publisher's Summary: Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable item - a present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow-in-the-dark dance costume - to its role as a supposed cure-all in everyday 20th-century life, when medical practitioners and business people (reputable and otherwise) devised ingenious ways of commodifying the new wonder element.