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Originally Posted by whswhs
It's not violation of the laws of thermodynamics when a material such as radium continues to emit energy that was never put into it, even though it was taken so at first.
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Stop right there - you're quite wrong there. Fusion is a net energy loss above iron; the radium's radiation is literally releasing the energy used to create it, and it's glow is a mixture of its radioactivity and stored light in the form of excited electrons.