The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom

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Courier Corporation, Jan 1, 2004 - Science - 260 pages
A Nobel Prize–winning chemist explains the nature of radioactivity and the structure of the atom in nontechnical language in this classic scientific text, appropriate for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. Beginning with the discovery of radioactivity, the text covers radium, the rays of radioactive substances, and radium’s emanation. Additional topics include helium and radium, the theory of atomic disintegration, the origin of radium and its successive changes, radioactivity and the nature of matter, radioactivity and the evolution of the world, the thorium and actinium disintegration series, and the ultimate structure of matter. Concluding chapters examine the nuclear atom, isotopes, and x-rays. 1920 ed. 44 figures.
 

Contents

PART I
1
CHAPTER II
12
CHAPTER III
28
THE RAYS OF RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES continued
47
CHAPTER V
68
CHAPTER VI
93
CHAPTER VII
105
CHAPTER VIII
121
CHAPTER X
152
RADIOACTIVITY AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD
168
PART II
186
CHAPTER XIII
209
CHAPTER XIV
220
Elements which are chemically identicalThe periodic law
227
CHAPTER XVI
234
INDEX
253

CHAPTER IX
136

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