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If radium and chlorine combine to form radium chloride, the compound would be
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as radioactive as radium
Radium in isolated form and in its chloride (i.e. $Ra^{+}$ ) only differ in the number of orbital electron. But, radioactivity is independent of chemical environment of an ion or atom, i.e. radiouctivity is the phenomenon which does not depend on the orbital electrons but depends only on the composition of nucleus
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