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THE aim of this book is to present a concise and popular account of the properties of the radio-active elements and of the theoretical conceptions which, are involved in the study of radio-active phenomena. With this object in view, the treatment throughout is purely descriptive, and no attempt is made to. develop the mathematical side of the subject. Nevertheless, the author has succeeded in describing and discussing most clearly the various phenomena of radio-activity.
An Introduction to the Science of Radio-activity.
By C. W. Raffety. Pp. xii + 208. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
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An Introduction to the Science of Radio-activity . Nature 81, 485 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081485a0
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