Radio-Active Substances (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Foundational Experiments on Uranium, Thorium, Polonium, and Radium at the Dawn of Nuclear ScienceBy Marie Curie
Length5h 54m
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Radio-Active Substances presents Curie's foundational investigation into the strange emissions first associated with uranium and thorium, and then with the newly isolated elements polonium and radium. Written with the precision of a doctoral thesis and the restraint of classical scientific prose, the book combines meticulous measurement, experimental description, and theoretical caution. In the context of fin-de-siècle physics, it stands at the threshold between nineteenth-century atomism and the revolutionary nuclear science that would follow. Marie Curie, born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw and trained in Paris, brought to the subject an unusual union of mathematical discipline, laboratory endurance, and intellectual independence. Her collaboration with Pierre Curie and her work in primitive conditions at the École de Physique et de Chimie enabled the chemical separation and physical characterization of radium, achievements that shaped this text and secured her place in modern science. This book is recommended to readers interested not only in the history of physics and chemistry but also in the making of scientific knowledge. It rewards patient reading as a primary document: lucid, rigorous, and quietly dramatic in its record of discovery.
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GenreScience and Nature
Length5 hrs 54 mins
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Publish dateJan 2, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Radio-Active Substances (Annotated)
26Action of the Magnetic Field.
2Introduction
27Deflected β-Rays.
3Synopsis
28Charge of the Deflected Rays.
4Historical Context
29Action of the Electric Field upon the Deflected β-Rays of Radium.
5Author Biography
30Relation of the Charge to the Mass for a Particle Negatively Charged Emitted by Radium.
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6Introduction.
31Action of the Magnetic Field upon the α-Rays.
7Historical.
32Action of the Magnetic Field on the Rays of other Radio-active Substances.
8Chapter I. Radio-activity of Uranium and Thorium. Radio-active Minerals.
33Proportion of β-Rays in the Radiation of Radium.
9Measurement of the Intensity of Radiation.
34Penetrating Power of the Radiation of Radio-active Bodies.
10Radio-activity of the Compounds of Uranium and Thorium.
35Ionising Action of Radium Rays on Insulating Liquids.
11Is Atomic Radio-activity a general Phenomenon?
36Various Effects and Applications of the Ionising Action of the Rays Emitted by Radio-active Substances.
12Radio-active Minerals.
37Fluorescent and Luminous Effects.
13Chapter II. Method of Research.
38Evolution of Heat by the Salts of Radium.
14Polonium, Radium, Actinium.
39Chemical Effects produced by the New Radio-active Bodies.
15Spectrum of Radium.
40Physiological Effects.
16Extraction of the New Radio-active Substances.
41Influence of Temperature upon Radiation.
17Polonium.
42Chapter IV. Communication of Radio-activity to Substances Initially Inactive.
18Preparation of the Pure Chloride of Radium.
43Activity Induced in an Enclosed Space.
19Determination of the Atomic Weight of Radium.
44Part played by Gases in the Phenomena of Induced Radio-activity.
20Characteristics of the Radium Salts.
45Dissipation in Free Air of the Induced Activity of Solid Bodies.
21Fractionation of Ordinary Barium Chloride.
46Dissipation of Activity in a Confined Space. Velocity of Destruction of the Emanation.
22Chapter III. Radiation of the New Radio-active Substances.
47Variation of Activity of Liquids rendered Active and of Radium Solutions.
23Methods of Investigation of the Radiation.
48Theory of Radio-activity.
24Energy of Radiation.
49Another Form of Induced Radio-activity.
25Complex Nature of the Radiation.
50Induced Radio-activity with Slow Dissipation.
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