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A common mineral of barium is barytes, or barium sulfate \(\left(\mathrm{BaSO}_{4}\right)\). Because elements in the same periodic group have similar chemical properties, we might expect to find some radium sulfate \(\left(\mathrm{RaSO}_{4}\right)\) mixed with barytes since radium is the last member of Group 2A. However, the only source of radium compounds in nature is in uranium minerals. Why?
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A common mineral of barium is barytes, or barium sulfate \(\left(\mathrm{BaSO}_{4}\right)\). Because elements in the same periodic group have similar chemical properties, we might expect to find some radium sulfate \(\left(\mathrm{RaSO}_{4}\right)\) mixed with barytes since radium is the last member of Group 2A. However, the only source of radium compounds in nature is in uranium minerals. Why?
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Here we will have to find out why the only source of radium compounds in nature is in uranium minerals.
Radium does not occur naturally on Earth. All the isotopes of radium is radioactive that means which can undergoes alpha emission . Alpha emission is the emission of 
As it can not occur naturally, it is a radioactive decay product. Thus radium can be prepared by the radioactive decay of 