“So here, I take four pitchblendes, and I put them in the tower, right? » The game has just started, and already Antoine Drouart seems rather comfortable with the game. The tower is the one which is at the heart of In the footsteps of Marie Curie, the one in which, in each round, we slide wooden cubes representing various radioactive materials (pitchblende, uranium and radium), without knowing with certainty what will come out. “This is actually what Marie Curie did,” compares the nuclear physicist. She brought in tons of pitchblende, uranium ore, and she refined it to obtain uranium. And by further refining this uranium, she obtained radium, an even more radioactive material, which was unknown at the time. »
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