Boys' Second Book of Inventions

It is just as well, therefore, that scientists learn more about radium and how to handle and control it before too much is manufactured. But the cost and danger of radium are only two of its least extraordinary features. Seen in the daylight radium is a commonplace white powder, but in the dark it glows like live fire, and the purer it is the more it glows. I held for a moment one of Mr. Hammer's radium tubes, and, the lights being turned off, it seemed like a live coal burning there in my hand, and yet I felt no sensation of heat. But radium really does give off heat as well as light-and gives it off continually without losing appreciable weight. And that is what seems to scientists a miracle. Imagine a coal which should burn day in and day out for hundreds of years, always bright, always giving off heat and light, and yet not growing any smaller, not turning to ashes. That is the almost unbelievable property of radium.

Author: Ray Stannard Baker
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 05/17/2017
Pages: 106
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d
ISBN13: 9781546648161
ISBN10: 154664816X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General

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