radium emanation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of radium emanation
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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These are generally known as radium emanation, thorium emanation, and actinium emanation.
From A Brief Account of Radio-activity by Francis Preston Venable
A large quantity of radium emanation was compressed into a fine glass tube A, about 1.5 cm. long.
From A Brief Account of Radio-activity by Francis Preston Venable
He was in the midst of an article by a famous scientist on radium emanation, when John Minute continued a conversation which he had broken off an hour ago.
From The Man Who Knew by Edgar Wallace
This consists of radium emanation tablets or powders and the necessary bath salts for the decarbonization of the system in all cases of what is called auto-intoxication.
From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Louis Dechmann
Contact with radium emanation results in a deposit of the fatal radium-D, which in 40 years is but half removed.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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