First Edition. vi, 1 leaf, 214 pp; 27 figs.; 3 plates; ads. Original cloth, 8vo. Spine very slightly sunned, else Near Fine. One of the first books on radioactivity, published in the same year as Ernest Rutherford's Radio-Activity and Soddy's Radio-Activity. "Ingenious experiments by R. J. Strutt. proved that the emanations given off by radioactive substances are not homogeneous but are of at least two different kinds, one of which will and another will not pass through tin-foil (Strutt, The Becquerel Rays. [giving an incorrect date]" (annotation to Printing and the Mind of Man 411).

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Title: The Becquerel Rays and the Properties of Radium.
Publisher: London: Edward Arnold, 1904.
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing

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