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Science · True or False?

Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive today

The answer is True.

Explanation

More than a century later, her research notes remain too contaminated to handle freely and are stored in lead-lined boxes at the French national library (readers must sign a liability waiver). Fun fact: radium-226 has a half-life of 1,600 years, so the notebooks will stay radioactive for another 1,500 years or so.

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