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On the Radio-active Deposits from Actinium

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IN the course of some experiments which Mr. W. T. Kennedy has been making at Toronto during the past few months, he has found a marked similarity in the active deposits obtained on positively and negatively charged electrodes placed within an air-tight vessel and subjected to the influence of the active emanation issuing from a sample of actinium.

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MCLENNAN, J. On the Radio-active Deposits from Actinium. Nature 79, 487–488 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079487b0

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