Radium and other Radio-active Elements: A popular account treated experimentally

105, [7] publisher's catalogue, [plates] pp. Burgundy hardback with gilt lettering to front & spine. Inscription of a J. M. Cossar from 1906 to front paste-down. Light rubbing to extremities of binding. Offsetting to endpapers, and some foxing to edges of leaves, more heavily to first and last 10 pages. 26 illustrations in b/w, including full-page plates. A book on radium, published around 10 years after its discovery in 1898 by Marie Curie, exploring its discovery and extraction; emanation; physical effects; chemical effects; effects on living tissues and other radioactive elements such as uranium, thorium, polonium and actinium. Appendix and publisher's catalogue to rear.

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Publisher: Percival Marshall & Co. [c. 1905]

Year: 1905

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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