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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It looks like they were super lazy and took the half life of the longest lived isotope of radium (226

approx 1600 years) minus its age (approx 100 years) to get to 1,500 years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm guessing we don't know the particulars of what radium isotope Curie was working with?