Recherches sur les substances radioactives by Marie Curie
"Recherches sur les substances radioactives" by Marie Curie is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. The work presents Curie's extensive research on radioactive substances, particularly focusing on uranium and the newly identified element radium. The text is aimed at a scholarly audience and contributes significantly to the field of radiochemistry. At the start of the work, Curie introduces her research, which began over four years prior, motivated by the
intriguing discovery of uranium radiation by Henri Becquerel. She discusses the collaborative efforts with her husband, Pierre Curie, in studying radioactive properties and emphasizes the establishment of radium as a new, highly radioactive element. The early chapters outline the significance of various experiments conducted, the methodologies employed to study radioactivity, and the continual evolution of scientific understanding surrounding radioactive substances as more researchers engage with the topic following their discoveries. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 04010116 |
| Title | Recherches sur les substances radioactives |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (archive.org) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 58.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | QC: Science: Physics |
| Subject | Radioactivity |
| Subject | Radioactive substances |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 43233 |
| Release Date | Jul 16, 2013 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 444 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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