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Uranium phosphorescence experiments

A few months after Roentgen announced his discovery of X rays, the French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852—1908) experimented to see if they were emitted by phosphorescent substances—those that glow in the dark after being exposed to bright light. One substance that appeared to confirm the idea that phosphorescence resulted in X rays was uranium. When... [Pg.108]

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