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A Brief Account of Radio-activity

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A Brief Account of Radio-activity

Francis Preston Venable

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In 1896 a photographic plate, wrapped and locked in a drawer, fogged itself: something invisible was pouring out of uranium. Venable tells the young science of radioactivity, from that first discovery through the properties of the strange new rays. A compact, clear account written when radium still amazed the world. Step into physics at the moment matter began to glow.

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  1. 1A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF RADIO-ACTIVITY
  2. 2FRANCIS P. VENABLE, Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D.
  3. 3D. C. HEATH CO., PUBLISHERS BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
  4. 4Copyright, 1917, By D. C. Heath Co. IA7
  5. 5PREFACE
  6. 6CONTENTS
  7. 7A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF RADIO-ACTIVITY
  8. 8A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF RADIO-ACTIVITY
  9. 9CHAPTER I
  10. 10DISCOVERY OF RADIO-ACTIVITY
  11. 11CHAPTER II
  12. 12PROPERTIES OF THE RADIATIONS
  13. 13CHAPTER III
  14. 14CHANGES IN RADIO-ACTIVE BODIES
  15. 15CHAPTER IV
  16. 16NATURE OF THE ALPHA PARTICLE
  17. 17CHAPTER V
  18. 18THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM

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