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CURIE, PIERRE; and CURIE, MARIE SKLODOWSKA. Sur une nouvelle substance radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende * Sur une nouvelle substance fortement radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende. in: Comptes Rendus, Volume 127, Number 3, pages 175-78, and Number 26, pages 1215-17. [2], [143]-209, [3]; [1179]-1257, [3] pages. Together, 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary marbled boards with slightly worn leather lettering piece; scattered marginal stains not affecting the Curie articles, contents leaf of part 26 trimmed and inlaid to size. Paris, 1898
first edition of the papers announcing the discovery of polonium and radium, "probably the first use of the word ''radioactive'' " (Partington). "In June [1898] they isolated a new substance about 300 times as active as Radium. This they called Polonium in honor of Marie''s native Poland. A further examination of the residue of pitchblende after the removal of Uranium and Polonium disclosed residual radio-activity far greater than was possessed by either substance alone. To this material, the name Radium was given"--Printing and the Mind of Man 394. Garrison-Morton 2003; Norman 545; Partington IV, 938.
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