Is radium springs dangerous because of radium?

Yes. Radium is a radioactive element that is found in small amounts in uranium ores. Radium, like all other radioactive materials, is dangerous if handled improperly. It was most famously used in...

Coordinates of Radium Springs (Georgia) are: 31°31′35″, North84°08′08″, West

the United States of America and Canada, the country in North America

The name radium comes from a Latin word radius, which means ray. It was named this because the chemists found that photographic effects were similar at light rays.

Radium was called radium because this element is strongly radioactive (radius in the Latin language is radiation).