Primordial nuclide Updated +Created
Penetration of radiation Updated +Created
Figure 1.
Penetration of alpha particles, beta particles and gamma rays
. Source.
Atomic battery Updated +Created
Nuclear reaction Updated +Created
Publication by Marie Curie Updated +Created
God, how terrible the current systems are! E.g. looking for the Polonium publication from 1898 and can't find it easily! Presumably would be in the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences 1898. There are two per year, and from searches would be tome 127. Finally found at: archive.org/details/ComptesRendusAcademieDesSciences0127/page/n5/mode/2up
A decent manual list of publications from the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences: comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/page/marie-skodowska-curie_fr/ They group Marie Curie's Polonium paper and Marie Curie's Radium paper together without giving the title of the second one though, but the page is given.
Thorium Updated +Created
Bismuth Updated +Created
Barium Updated +Created
Cobalt Updated +Created
French learned society Updated +Created
Becquerel's rays Updated +Created
These must have been gamma rays.
Just before he left Cambridge for Montreal in 1898, Rutherford conducted a simple, systematic experiment to study the absorption of rays from uranium. [...] In 1901 he determined that Becquerel's rays are indeed electromagnetic rays. He called them γ (gamma) rays.
This terminology is used e.g. in Marie Curie's Polonium paper:
Some minerals containing uranium and thorium (pitchblende, chalcolite, uranite) are very active from the point of view of the emission of Becquerel rays.
Figure 1.
Gamma spectroscopy of a Uranium ore
. Source. Several points of the Uranium 238 decay chain are clearly visible.
Abundance of the chemical elements on Earth Updated +Created
Radiation Updated +Created
List of chemical elements Updated +Created
Abundance of the chemical elements Updated +Created
Separation process Updated +Created
Power source Updated +Created
The UK is broken Updated +Created
Adam Curtis coming to mind so hard.
Video 1.
Britain is a dump by BritMonkey
. Source. Published 2024.
Lamento Sertanejo Updated +Created
Video 1.
Lamento Sertanejo by Gilberto Gil
. Source. Track from the 1975 album.
Video 2.
Lamento Sertanejo scene from the 2002 documentary Tempo Rei
. Source. Fantastic scenes perfecly complementing ths song
Song composed by Gilberto Gil Updated +Created

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