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Title

Radioactive transformations

Description

Ernest Rutherford compiled the various advances he and his collaborators had achieved into the book Radioactive Transformations (1906). This text shows a similar graph as seen in The Radioactivity of Uranium, with a different set of elements. The two graphs are remarkably similar, which underscores the universal application of Rutherford and Soddy’s principles. Modern geochronologists avail themselves of a wide variety of radioactive elements found in different minerals, all with different constants and half-lives that are suited to a specific geologic problem.

Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)

537.55 R93R

See Also

Full Text Available at HathiTrust

Authors

Rutherford, Ernest

Full Title

Radioactive transformations, by E. Rutherford ... with diagrams.

Date

1906

From the Exhibit

In Seach of Lost Time: Radioactivity and the Science of Geochronology

Series

Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures

Publisher

C. Scribner’s Sons

Location

New York

Language

English

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Type

Text

Medium

Book

Bibliographic Citation

Rutherford, Ernest. Radioactive Transformations. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1906.