Abstract
THE author's aim in writing this volume is to present the chief phenomena and theories relating to radioactivity in a concise and simple form. The subject has been competently dealt with in an elementary manner in other works, but it is advancing rapidly, and the present work is intended to enable readers to keep pace with its development. All branches of the subject are treated in this book. Beginning with chapters on the nature of gaseous conductivity and on the methods of measurement employed, the author goes on to describe the discovery of the radio-active substances, the nature of the radiations they emit, the emanations, the active deposits from the emanations, and their successive transformations. In the concluding chapters the activity of substances in general and the mechanism of radioactive changes are briefly discussed.
The Radio-active Substances.
By W. Makower. Pp. xii+301. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price 5s.
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M., J. The Radio-active Substances . Nature 79, 157–158 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079157b0
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