What does radium's name have to do with radium?

Radium got its name from the Latin word radius, meaning ray. The early studies of radioactive elements (by Pierre and Marie Curie and others) found that their photographic effects were similar to...

The name radium is derived from the Latin language word radius, equivalent to radiation.

The name is only radium, with the chemical symbol Ra.

The name radium is derived from the Latin language word radius (equivalent to radiation).

Radium was discovered in 1898 by Marie Curie, Pierre Curie and Gustave Bemont.