Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 216
190 ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERING SOCIETIES. Klaproth in KSD in pitchblende from Joachimsthah Bohemia, and named after Herschel's discovery of the planet Uranus. The free metal was first isolated by Peliglot in 1S12. The metal is fairly malleable, looks like nickel, rapidly oxidizes in the air and is… … mineral in which the radio-active substances were first found, was known to occur at Toachimsthal as far back as 1727. Radium. The discovery of the property of radio-activity was largely accidental. In 189G Becquerel was conducting experiments to determine the effect of the fluorescence of uranyl…
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