radioactivity:

See Sir James Chadwick, Radioactivity and Radioactive Substances (rev. ed. 1962); A. Romer, ed., Radiochemistry and the Discovery of Isotopes (1970).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Radioactive Emissions
• Radioactive Decay
• Discovery of Radioactivity
• Bibliography

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