Lecture1943
Some Applications of Isotopic Indicators
George de Hevesy
Demonstrates using a radioactive isotope as a tracer to follow an element's path through a chemical or biological system without disturbing it.
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Nuclear & Radiochemistry
Chemistry where the nucleus itself is the reagent.
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- 01Foundations & Overviews1
- 02Radioisotopes1
- 03Radiochemical Separation1
- 04Nuclear Fuel Cycle1
- 05Radiopharmaceuticals1
- 06Radiation Chemistry1
- 07Nuclear Waste Chemistry1
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Some Applications of Isotopic Indicators
George de Hevesy · 1943
Demonstrates using a radioactive isotope as a tracer to follow an element's path through a chemical or biological system without disturbing it.
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Handling and Processing of Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Applications
International Atomic Energy Agency · 2001
Surveys the chemical conditioning methods — cementation, vitrification, bituminisation — used to convert radioactive waste into stable forms for…
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Radioactive Substances
Marie Curie · 1903
The doctoral thesis that isolated polonium and radium and established radioactivity as a property of the atom rather than of a compound.
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Report2001
Handling and Processing of Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Applications
International Atomic Energy Agency
Surveys the chemical conditioning methods — cementation, vitrification, bituminisation — used to convert radioactive waste into stable forms for long-term storage.
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Report2008
Technetium-99m Radiopharmaceuticals: Manufacture of Kits
International Atomic Energy Agency
Sets out the chemistry of technetium-99m generator elution and cold-kit labelling that makes same-day radiopharmaceutical preparation routine in hospital pharmacies.
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Report1903
Radioactive Substances
Marie Curie
The doctoral thesis that isolated polonium and radium and established radioactivity as a property of the atom rather than of a compound.
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Lecture1935
Artificial Production of Radioactive Elements
Irène Joliot-Curie & Frédéric Joliot
Reports that bombarding stable elements with alpha particles can create new radioactive isotopes of ordinary elements, showing radioactivity is not confined to naturally radioactive ones.
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Lecture1946
From the Natural Transmutations of Uranium to Its Artificial Fission
Otto Hahn
Describes the radiochemical separation experiments that identified barium among uranium's neutron-bombardment products, the observation that revealed nuclear fission.
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Lecture1951
The Transuranium Elements
Glenn T. Seaborg
Reports the chemical isolation and identification of plutonium and the other transuranium elements, work that placed a new actinide series beneath the periodic table.
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1903 – 2008- 1903Radioactive SubstancesMarie Curie
- 1935Artificial Production of Radioactive ElementsIrène Joliot-Curie & Frédéric Joliot
- 1943Some Applications of Isotopic IndicatorsGeorge de Hevesy
- 1951The Transuranium ElementsGlenn T. Seaborg
- 2001Handling and Processing of Radioactive Waste from Nuclear ApplicationsInternational Atomic Energy Agency
- 2008Technetium-99m Radiopharmaceuticals: Manufacture of KitsInternational Atomic Energy Agency