| Boys' Second Book of Inventions Contributor(s): Baker, Ray Stannard (Author) |
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ISBN: 154664816X ISBN-13: 9781546648161 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.34 lbs) 106 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is just as well, therefore, that scientists learn more about radium and how to handle and control it before too much is manufactured. But the cost and danger of radium are only two of its least extraordinary features. Seen in the daylight radium is a commonplace white powder, but in the dark it glows like live fire, and the purer it is the more it glows. I held for a moment one of Mr. Hammer's radium tubes, and, the lights being turned off, it seemed like a live coal burning there in my hand, and yet I felt no sensation of heat. But radium really does give off heat as well as light-and gives it off continually without losing appreciable weight. And that is what seems to scientists a miracle. Imagine a coal which should burn day in and day out for hundreds of years, always bright, always giving off heat and light, and yet not growing any smaller, not turning to ashes. That is the almost unbelievable property of radium. |
