Marie Curie
Marie Curie: The Radio-Active Substances
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Table of Contents
Chapter I. Radio-activity of Uranium and Thorium. Radio-active Minerals.
Measurement of the Intensity of Radiation.
Radio-activity of the Compounds of Uranium and Thorium.
Is Atomic Radio-activity a general Phenomenon?
Chapter II. Method of Research.
Extraction of the New Radio-active Substances.
Preparation of the Pure Chloride of Radium.
Determination of the Atomic Weight of Radium.
Characteristics of the Radium Salts.
Fractionation of Ordinary Barium Chloride.
Chapter III. Radiation of the New Radio-active Substances.
Methods of Investigation of the Radiation.
Complex Nature of the Radiation.
Action of the Electric Field upon the Deflected β-Rays of Radium.
Relation of the Charge to the Mass for a Particle Negatively Charged Emitted by Radium.
Action of the Magnetic Field upon the α-Rays.
Action of the Magnetic Field on the Rays of other Radio-active Substances.
Proportion of β-Rays in the Radiation of Radium.
Penetrating Power of the Radiation of Radio-active Bodies.
Ionising Action of Radium Rays on Insulating Liquids.
Fluorescent and Luminous Effects.
Evolution of Heat by the Salts of Radium.
Chemical Effects produced by the New Radio-active Bodies.
Influence of Temperature upon Radiation.
Chapter IV. Communication of Radio-activity to Substances Initially Inactive.
Activity Induced in an Enclosed Space.
Part played by Gases in the Phenomena of Induced Radio-activity.
Dissipation in Free Air of the Induced Activity of Solid Bodies.
