radium emanation

How to use radium emanation in a sentence

• The element yields spontaneously radium emanation without any apparent diminution of its own mass.

  An Introduction to the History of Science | Walter Libby

• Niton, or radium emanation, is one of the products of the disintegration of radium.

  Meteorology | Charles Fitzhugh Talman

• Mix very slowly and quietly in order not to release too much of the radium emanation.

  Valere Aude | Louis Dechmann

• Contact with radium emanation results in a deposit of the fatal radium-D, which in 40 years is but half removed.

  Darwin and Modern Science | A.C. Seward and Others

• The radium emanation is a gas about 111 times heavier than hydrogen; to this gas Sir William Ramsay has given the name niton.

  The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry | M. M. Pattison Muir