Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry. FIVE VOLUME SET
Contributors: Attila Vértes (Editor); Sándor Nagy (Editor); Zoltán Klencsár (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 2444
ISBN-13: 9781402013058
Subjects: Nuclear chemistry, photochemistry & radiation; Science/Mathematics; Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical; Science; Science / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical; Chemistry - General; Nuclear chemistry
First sentence: The field that became known as radiochemistry, dealing with the chemical manipulation of radioactive materials and the application of radioactivity to basic and applied chemical problems, originated very soon after Henri Becquerel had discovered the phenomenon of radioactivity during his studies of the fluorescence of uranium compounds (Becquerel 1896).