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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Emanation, Average life of, 155, 159, 167 Emanations and radiations con- trasted, 106 Energy of radioactive substances, 4, 8, 14, Sr, 87, 91, 124, 125, 229 — of coal, 30, 31, 91, 164 — of radium, 31, 116, 164, 229 — of uranium, 227-30 — Transformers of, 92, 93, 123 — Internal, of matter, 92, 95, 96- 9, 118, 119, 124, 130, 145, 225- 35 — Measurement of, 30, 96 Ephemeral transition-forms, 100, 125, 158-64, 167, 177 Equilibrium, Radioactive, 123, 129, 161 Ether, The, 52, 53, 78 Evolution of elements, 184, 220- 22 — of universe, 36, 164, 239-41 Existence, Struggle for, 8, 240-50 F Facts and theories of radio- activity, 122, 146 Faraday, 66, 77 Fluorescence, 9, 24, 43, 74, 89, 106, 107 G Gas, A radioactive, 105, 109, 113 Geiger, 63 Geological bearing of radioac- tivity, 36, 101, 235-8 Geology, Controversy between physics and, 36 Gicsel, 26, 135 Gold currency, 212 H Heat generated by radium, 12, 25, 31, 116, 164 Helium, 62, 84, 114, 126-40 — Discovery of, 131 — Liquefaction of, 132 — Prediction concerning the origin of, 133 — Spectrum of, 135 — in radioactive minerals, 131, TOO 1 JJ Volume of, 133 — Production of by radium, 128, 134 actinium, 135, 138 thorium and uranium, 136-8 Herschell, Sir John, 215, 220 High vacua, 72, 74 Huggins, Sir William, 145 I Increase of activity of radium with time, 22, 208 “ Induced radioactivity,” 187 Indifference of radium to its en- vironment, 37, 105, 221 Inertia, 79 Infinitesimal quantities, Detection of, 102, 104, 112, 116, 122, 124, 128 Inglis,J. K. //., 154 | Ionisation, 88, 89 “ Ionium,” 183 Intermediate substances, 100, 103, 104, 180-5 Internal energy of matter, 92,95, 96-9, 118, 119, 225 Interpenetration of atoms, 88 J Joachimsthal mine, 20,27, 206 Joly, Professor, 236, 237, 238