The interpretation of radium : being the substance of six free popular experimental lectures delivered at the University of Glasgow, 1908 / by Frederick Soddy ; with illustrations.

  • Soddy, Frederick, 1877-1956.
Date:
1909
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    Quantityofhelium in minerals,133 — detectable by spectroscope, 137 R Radiation, Nature of, 51-6 Radiant matter, 73, 80 Radiograph by 7-rays, 44 Radio-tellurium, 207 Radium clock, 82 —, Chemical nature of, 165 —, Average life of, 163, 171 —, Maintenance of, 163-75 — and uranium, connection between, 170-85 Radium A, 121, 142, 190-8, 208 — B, 121, 142, 190-8 — C, 142, 190-8, 209 — D, E and F, 200-4 — P', Identity of with polonium, 200-3 Ramsay, Sir William, 112, 114, j 132, 134, 163 Rays of radioactive substances, 12, 39 et scq. Rayleigh, Lord, 114 Ratio between uranium and its products, 207 Recovery of radioactivity of radium, 105, 119 Rowland, Professor, 217 Rutherford, Professor, 41, 42, 63, 64, 83, 89, 105, 109, I 17, 122, 133, >39, 163, t71, 186 S Schuster, Professor, 218 Sidot’s hexagonal blende, 50 Silk tassel experiment, 25, 47 S mi the!Is, Professor, 147 Spectroscope, 102, 124, 125, 132, 134, 138, 178, 238 Spinthariscope, 59, 63 -Struggle for existence, 8, 240-50 Strutt, 82, 171, 235 Stability of elements, 98, 21 r, 220—2 “Subradium,” 183 Successive changes of radio elements, ico, 104, 121, 151, 160, 177-85, 190, i99-2o5 Sun’s energy, Maintenance of, 33, 164, 238 T Pent, 5, 28, 34, 36, 1 -4 Thallium, 204 Theories and facts of radio- activity, 122, 146 Thomson, Sir J. 80 Thorium, 18, 127, 132, T33, 136-8, 183, 187 —, Production of helium from, 136-8 Total energy in radium, 164 — in uranium, 227, 229 Transcendental character of radio- activity, 37, 81 Transformers of energy, 92, 93, 123 Transmutation, 18, 95, 96, 98, 230-3, 242 U Ultimate products of radium, 103, 129, 168, 203, 204 Ultra-material velocities, 88 Unchanging character of ele- ments, 97, 99, 220-2 Uranium, 9, 17, 132, 133, 159, 170-85, 205-7, 226-30 —, Average life of, 110, 171 —, Production of helium from 136-8 — and radium, connection be- tween, 170-85 Uranium X, 176-80