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Marie Curie and her husband Pierre spent nearly four years boiling down seven tonnes of pitchblende in a leaky Paris shed with no ventilation to isolate one-tenth of a gram of radium chloride, and the... For nearly four years in a leaky Paris shed, Marie and Pierre Curie boiled down eight tonnes of pitchblende to extract a tenth of a gram of radium chloride — and the notebooks she kept during that wor... https://scienceblog.com/sb-marie-curie-and-her-husband-pierre-spent-nearly-four-years-boiling-down-seven-tonnes-of-pitchblende-in-a-leaky-paris-shed-with-no-ventilation-to-isolate-one-tenth-of-a-gram-of-radium-chloride-and-t/