Author: William J. HammerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780243670482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Radium, and Other Radio-Active Substances; Polonium, Actinium, and Thorium
Author: William J. HammerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780243670482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Radio-active Substances
Author: Marie CuriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioactive substances
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Health Risks of Radon and Other Internally Deposited Alpha-Emitters
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309037891
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description
This book describes hazards from radon progeny and other alpha-emitters that humans may inhale or ingest from their environment. In their analysis, the authors summarize in one document clinical and epidemiological evidence, the results of animal studies, research on alpha-particle damage at the cellular level, metabolic pathways for internal alpha-emitters, dosimetry and microdosimetry of radionuclides deposited in specific tissues, and the chemical toxicity of some low-specific-activity alpha-emitters. Techniques for estimating the risks to humans posed by radon and other internally deposited alpha-emitters are offered, along with a discussion of formulas, models, methods, and the level of uncertainty inherent in the risk estimates.
Radio-Active Substances
Author: Marie CuriePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
"The object of the present work is the publication of researches which I have been carrying on for more than four years on radio-active bodies. I began these researches by a study of the phosphorescence of uranium, discovered by M. Becquerel. The results to which I was led by this work promised to afford so interesting a field that Pierre Curie put aside the work on which he was engaged, and joined me, our object being the extraction of new radio-active substances and the further study of their properties."
The Discovery of Radium. Research on Radioactive Substances.
Author: Marie Sklodowska CuriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Marie Sklodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French scientist who remains today one of the most extraordinary figures in modern physics and chemistry. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes (in Physics and in Chemistry) and the first woman scientist to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. After being denied a position at the University of Kraków, due to the common sexism in the academia of the time, she returned to Paris to work together with Pierre Curie. At the end of the 19th century, Henri Becquerel had discovered the new phenomenon of radio-activity (a term later coined by Marie Sklodowska Curie) in uranium salts. Sklodowska Curie built upon this study and made two fundamental discoveries in the field. First, she discovered that radio-activity is a property of certain elements (like uranium and thorium) of the periodic table, and it is not due to the chemical properties of compounds. Second, she discovered two new radio-active elements, polonium and radium. This book presents her address at Vassar College from 1921 and her Ph.D. thesis, defended in 1903 at the Faculty of Science of the Université de la Sorbonne in Paris. Her thesis, described by the examining committee as the best contribution to science ever presented, made Marie Sklodowska Curie the first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in the history of France. Newly translated from the French second edition, it represents a true masterpiece of science and describes in detail her efforts to understand the origin of radioactivity. To appreciate the beauty of her work one has to keep in mind that, at the time, the structure of the atom was largely unknown (the first attempt was made by J.J. Thomson in 1904). Due to high exposure to radiation, she died from aplastic anemia at the age of 66.
The Radioactive Substances
Author: Walter MakowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioactivity
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Radioactive Substances and Their Radiations
Author: Ernest RutherfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Radium
Author: Myron MetzenbaumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aluminum
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Radioactive Substances and Their Radiations
Author: E. RutherfordPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Radioactive Substances
Author: Marie CuriePublisher: Allied Books Limited
ISBN: 9780802224330
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Curie describes each step in her experiments to isolate radium and determine its characteristics