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THIS book contains a semi-popular account of radioactive phenomena. The leading experimental facts and the conclusions of their discoverers are described clearly enough, but with little in the way of suggestive comment. The printing and illustrations are good, but we notice a serious error in Fig. 10, which suggests that the β-rays of radium, when deflected by magnetic force, lie in the same plane as the poles of the deflecting magnet. The contrary is, of course, the fact, and such a mistake cannot but suggest serious doubts as to the competence of the author's general scientific knowledge.
Das Radium und die radioactiven Stoffe.
By KarlFrhr. von Papius. Pp. viii + 90. (Berlin: Gustav Schmidt.) Prices 2 marks.
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S., R. Das Radium und die radioactiven Stoffe . Nature 74, 125 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074125b0
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