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Radioactivity in America: growth and decay of a science
Lawrence Badash
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Frontmatter
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Illustrations (page xi)
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Preface (page xiii)
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The Radioactive Decay Series (page xvi)
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1 European Origins (page 5)
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2 American Reception of Radioactivity (page 17)
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3 First Research Efforts (page 33)
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4 Boltwood and McCoy (page 59)
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5 Uranium-Radium Genetics (page 74)
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6 Useful Decay Series Relationships (page 89)
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7 The Parent of Radium (page 99)
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8 Thorium Genetics (page 111)
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9 Radioactivity in Medicine (page 125)
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10 The Radium Business (page 135)
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11 Chemical Maturity: Radium Data (page 152)
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12 Chemical Maturity: Other Radioelements (page 165)
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13 Toward the Group Displacement Laws (page 181)
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14 The Suicidal Success of Chemistry (page 194)
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15 Physical Investigations: Alpha Particles in the Second Dozen Years of Radioactivity (page 214)
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16 Physical Investigations: Beta and German Radiations in the Second Dozen Years of Radioactivity (page 229)
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17 Physical Investigations: Completing the Picture of the Second Dozen Years of Radioactivity (page 244)
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Conclusion (page 259)
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Abbreviations (page 275)
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Notes (page 277)
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Index (page 315)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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TC | 21.4 (Oct. 1980): 695-697 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3104116 |
AHR | 85.3 (Jun. 1980): 728-729 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1855104 |
ISIS | 72.1 (Mar. 1981): 116-117 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/231203 |
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Published: c1979
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- 9780801821875 (hardcover)