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Becquerel rays
Becquerel rays Becque`rel" rays" (Physics) Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

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- Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/; French: [ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize...
- the dark after exposure to light, and Becquerel suspected that the glow produced in cathode-ray tubes by X-rays might be ****ociated with phosp****scence...
- The becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/; symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI). One becquerel is defined as an activity...
- name for the photo-voltaic effect Becquerel Prize, prize for contributions to photovoltaic research Becquerel Rays, the original name given to radioactivity...
- term "rays" was still consistent with then known particles such as cathode rays, canal rays, alpha rays, and beta rays. Meanwhile "cosmic" ray photons...
- Jean Antoine Edmond Marie Becquerel (5 February 1878 – 4 July 1953) was a French physicist, the son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel. He worked on a range of...
- gases, including early work on x-rays and electrons. He wrote one of the first books on radioactivity, The Becquerel rays and the properties of radium (E...
- radiation (discovered by Henri Becquerel) alpha rays and beta rays in ascending order of penetrating power. Gamma rays from radioactive decay are in the...
- ISSN 0262-4079. Strutt, R. J. (2004) [Originally published 1906]. The Becquerel rays and the properties of radium. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. p. 20...
- 1899. In 1900, Becquerel measured the m****-to-charge ratio (m/e) for beta particles by the method of J. J. Thomson used to study cathode rays and identify...