Multiple choice

Which rare element would you associate with Marie and Pierre Curie?

  1. Platinum

  2. Diamond

  3. Radium

  4. Uranium
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Marie and Pierre Curie are famous for their research on radioactivity and for discovering radium and polonium in 1898. Radium became the element most closely associated with their work and led to their Nobel Prize in Physics. While they also worked with uranium, radium was their groundbreaking discovery.

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