Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium /

Presented here is the story of the mining and sale of uranium and radium ore through biographical vignettes, chemistry, physics, geology, geography, occupational health, medical utilization, environmental safety and industrial history. Included are the people and places involved over the course of o...

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Main Author: Robison, Roger F. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reich Thalers & Pechblende
  • Ionizing x-rays
  • Radioactive rocks
  • European radium sales
  • Colorado uranium
  • United States radium & uranium sales
  • United States radium oncology
  • Congo & Arctic uranium sales
  • Miner's plague
  • Cold war uranium blunders.