LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 1000
Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius
The Wonders
of Radium
Maynard Shipley
HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY
GIRARD, KANSAS
Copyright, 1926,
Haldeman-Julius Company
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
THE WONDERS OF RADIUM
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| I. | Introductory | [5] |
| All Matter Radioactive | [9] | |
| II. | Everyday Uses of Radium | [16] |
| Radium Makes Gems Blush | [18] | |
| A Radium Clock | [19] | |
| III. | Radium and the Age of the Earth | [21] |
| IV. | An Epoch-Making Discovery | [30] |
| How Radium is Converted to Lead | [34] | |
| V. | Radium in the Treatment of Cancer | [45] |
| VI. | Efficiency of Radium in Treatment of Various Diseases | [51] |
| VII. | Where We Get Radium | [55] |
| New Sources of Radium | [58] | |
| The Radioactive Disintegration Series | [60] | |
| Uranium I Series | [63] | |
| Uranium Y Series | [63] | |
| Thorium Series | [64] |