Abstract
IT was in pitchblende from the mines of Jáchymov (St. Joachimsthal) in Bohemia that Prof, and Mme. Curie first discovered radium. The ores from these mines now yield radium preparations representing two to four grams of the pure element annually. In spite of the interest in the subject, the present volume is the first book by Czech men of science on radioactivity. It deals with the discovery and phenomena of radioactivity, the preparation of radium products and their physiological action, geophysics, cosmic radioactivity, and the technique followed at the Czech mines and extraction plant and at the Prague Radiological Institute.
Úvod do Radioaktivity.
Dr. F. Bêhounek Prof. Dr. J. Heyrovský. Pp. 116. (Praha: Jednoty Ĉs. Matematiku a Fysiku, 1931.) 24 Kĉ.
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D., J. Úvod do Radioaktivity . Nature 129, 816 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129816b0
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