 ... change of radioactive substances. It is only in the latter case, however, that the electron can be regarded as a primordial constituent and the change as transmutational. Even to-day it is in radioactive phenomena, and in these alone, that the limits...  Journal of the Chemical Society - Page 4by Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1919Full view - About this book
 | 1919 - 384 pages
...electrification of a glass rod by friction, the ionisation of an electrolyte by solution, and by the 0-ray change of radio-active substances. It is only in the...radioactive phenomena, and in these alone, that the limits leached long ago in the chemical analysis of matter have been overstepped, and the Rubicon, which a... | |
 | Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane - 1919 - 464 pages
...appeared as the limits of the physically possible. But even to-day it is only in radio-active phenomena that the limits reached long ago in the chemical analysis...matter have been overstepped, and the Rubicon, which many have vaulted over so lightly in imagination, has actually been crossed by science." The first... | |
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