The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity, Part I. With: The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity, Part II. With: Radioactive Change

by Ernest Rutherford, Frederick Soddy

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First edition

London: Taylor & Francis, 1902–1903. First edition of the three papers in which Rutherford and Soddy established that radioactivity is transmutation — that a radioactive element is a species of atom in the act of changing spontaneously into a different element, each such change proceeding at its own characteristic rate and, through a chain of successive changes, giving rise to a radioactive series. The account

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