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If radium and chlorine combine to form radium chloride, the compound would be
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Options:
  • A half as radioactive as radium
  • B twice as radioactive
  • C as radioactive as radium
  • D not radioactive
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The correct answer is: 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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