Plutonium [electronic resource] : a history of the world's most dangerous element.
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Plutonium [electronic resource] : a history of the world's most dangerous element.
Plutonium [electronic resource] : a history of the world's most dangerous element.
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Sydney : University of NSW Press, 2009.
Date
2009.
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English
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1 online resource (213 p.)
Contents
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.
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Sydney : University of NSW Press, 2009.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2009.
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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.
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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 war between the USA and USSR, Bernstein tells the...
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Plutonium [electronic resource] : a history of the world's most dangerous element.
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74VvxrgJXQwy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvxrgJXQwy
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ISBN
9781742232102
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546.434 22
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991016781539702626
