| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 267 pages) : illustrations, map |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A new science. The beginnings ; The Curies ; Rutherford, Soddy, particles, and alchemy? ; The radioactive Earth ; Speculations ; Radioactivity and chemistry ; Inside the atom ; Sequel -- Measuring and using radioactivity. Methods and instruments ; Radioactivity, medicine, and life ; New industries -- Beyond the story. Radioactivity's prime movers ; Radioactivity and timeless questions : the quest for understanding ; The imaginative appeal of a discovery. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Radioactivity.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Nuclear.
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Radioactivity. (OCoLC)fst01088014
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Malley, Marjorie Caroline, 1941- Radioactivity. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199766413 (DLC) 2010038979 (OCoLC)668403377 |
| ISBN |
9780199830497 (electronic bk.) |
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0199830495 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
40019708848 |
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