The Becquerel rays and the properties of radium / by Hon. R.J. Strutt.

  • Rayleigh Robert John Strutt Lord, 1875-
Date:
1904
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Credit: The Becquerel rays and the properties of radium / by Hon. R.J. Strutt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thomson, Prof. J. J., charge of a cathode particle, 14-17. emanation from spring water, 145. radio-activity of ordinary materials, 151. structure of atoms, 185. Thorium, activity of, 29, 30. active deposit of, 129. emanation of, 128, 129. —— in minerals, 171. —— photographic action of, 190. X, 127-129. Transmutation of elements, 159, 160. Travers, M. W. See Ramsay, Sir W. Ultimate products, the, of radio-active change, 154 et seq. Uranium, absorption of /3-rays from, 91. activity of various components of, 33-35. as a possible parent of radium, 169- 171. changes occurring in, 125. discharging power of, 29. effect of temperature on activity of, 139. oxide in pitchblende, 36. photographic action of, 26, 27. ratio of, to radium in minerals, 170, 171. rays, discovery of, 26, 27. salts, luminescence of, 26. Uranium X, separation of, 125-127, 198, 199. Villard, P., bismuth made active by cathode rays, 177. Volumes, atomic, periodicity of, 162- 164. Water, decomposition of, by radium, 58. spring, emanation dissolved in, 145. thermal, radio-activity associated with, 143-145. Waves, electric, emitted by rotating corpuscles, 185-187. Welsbach mantles, radio-activity of, 190. Wien, W., canal rays, 23. Wilcox-, Miss E. C., and Hardy, W. B., action of radium on iodoform, 56. Wilson, C. T. R., activity from rain, 147. cloud formed by cathode particles, 14. leakage of electricity through gases, 149. Xenon, 173, 174. Zeeman effect, 186. Zinc sulphide, fluorescence of, 53. scintillations of, 82, 83. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press