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Plutonium : a history of the world's most dangerous element /
Historically fascinating and scientifically rigorous, Plutonium tells the story of a rare and exotic element put to deadly use in atomic bombs, from its discovery to the present day. From the discovery of uranium in 1789 to the Manhattan Project, from Nazi efforts to build a nuclear bomb to the cold...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney, N.S.W. :
New South,
2009, ©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Blank Page; Blank Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; I Preamble; II The History of Uranium; III The Periodic Table; IV Frau Röntgen's Hand; V Close Calls; VI Fissions; VII Transuranics; VIII Plutonium Goes to War; IX Los Alamos; X Electrons; XI Now What?; Notes; Credits; Index