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Periodic craziness

By Deborah Blum
Posted: December 4, 2011

Category: chemistry, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged chemistry, Hugh Aldersley-Williams, lead, Marie Curie, Periodic Tales, polonium, radiation, radium, Sam Kean, thallium, The Disappearing Spoon, The Elements, The Elements (song), The Periodic Table of Elements, The Poisoner's Handbook, The Radium Girls, Theodore Gray | 17 Comments

Life in the Undark

By Deborah Blum
Posted: March 25, 2011

Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged alpha radiation, beta radiation, Consumers Union of New Jersey, gamma radiation, Harrison S. Martland, Japan, Marie Curie, nuclear power, polonium, radioactivity, radon, The Poisoner's Handbook, The Radium Girls, U.S. Radium Corporation, uranium | 8 Comments

The Radium Girls

By Deborah Blum
Posted: March 24, 2011

Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, Alexander Gettler, Charles Norris, Harrison S. Martland, Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, N.J., New York City Medical Examiner's Office, nuclear, Orange, Pierre Curie, polonium, radioactivity, radium, The Radium Girls, U.S. Radium Corporation, uranium | 19 Comments

Periodically Crazy

By Deborah Blum
Posted: October 4, 2010

Category: chemistry | Tagged hydrogen, lead, Marie Curie, plutonium, polonium, radium, thallium, The Periodic Table of the Elements, xenon | 21 Comments