Effect of cathode rays

In 1899, the Curies first reported the coloration of glass and porcelain and the formation of ozone from oxygen by radioactive radiation. Giesel (1900) noted that the coloration of alkali halides under these radiations was similar to the effect of cathode rays he also observed the decomposition of water. R Curie and Debierne (1901) observed continuous evolution of hydrogen and oxygen... 

For glutamic acid (18) and glycine (10) the yield of ammonia varies approximately as the cube root of the concentration. This variation agrees with the diffusion of the spur model which derives from the hypothesis that at higher solute concentrations, water radicals are scavenged which would react with each other in more dilute solution. However, for the effect of cathode rays on the aromatic amino acids phenylalanine, tryptophan, and tyrosine and for cystine, this relationship is inverted, and amino acid destruction decreased with an increase in concentration (29). 

Sir J. J. Thomson9 tried the effect of cathode rays in experiments similar to those of Collie and Patterson, and obtained not only helium and neon, but also a considerable proportion of a gas denoted by him as X3. Thomson believed the helium and neon to have been evolved from the materials of the apparatus under the influence of the electric discharge Collie and Patterson regarded these gases as having been... 

Having established that the electrical and phosphorescent effects of cathode rays could not be separated, Thomson proceeded to demolish another objection to the charged-particle theory. This was that iio deflection of the cathode ray beam had been observed when it was passed between two plates maintained at a small potential difference. Thomson argued that the passage of the rays rendered the... 

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