Radium water is also known as radium tonic, a kind of medical thermal mineral water. According to the National Medical Thermal Mineral Water Quality Standard, the radium salt content in the water is 10.11 grams per liter or more, which is called radium water.
By radium salt content, radium water can be divided into three categories:
①Weak radium water, radium salt content between 10^-12 ~ 10^-10 grams/liter;
②Medium radium water, radium salt content between 10^-10 ~ 10^-9 grams/liter;
③Strong radium water, radium salt content of 10^-9 grams/liter or more.
History
Radium tonic was a product manufactured by the Bailey Radium Laboratories Company in East Orange, New Jersey, between 1918 and 1928. The company was owned by Dr. William J. A. Bailey, a Harvard dropout and not a doctor. The product was advertised as a "cure for the living dead" and "eternal sunshine."
Eben Byers, a wealthy American athlete, industrialist and Yale graduate, died in 1932 of radiation poisoning caused by radium supplementation.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Radium Complement