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The atomic timebomb; Mass destruction: Rutherford's work led to nuclear weaponry. Inset: Vanessa Santos-Leitao and Hugh Wagner, who both died of cancer.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
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September 24, 2008
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Byline: Jaya Narain
RADIATION from experiments at a university 100 years ago is suspected of causing a cluster of cancer deaths.
Three academics and an assistant have died after working in the laboratory used by Ernest Rutherford at the start of the 20th century.
The Nobel prizewinner is known to have experimented with radon at the Manchester University facility.
The Health and Safety Executive is overseeing an investigation into whether contamination by the radioactive gas was a factor in the four deaths, the last of which came last week. ...
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UCLA Chemist Provides New Insights Into a Science Icon and Its History: the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements.
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Periodic table site provides right elements.(B)(Metropolitan)(Life/Science & Technology)(Webwise)
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; ...exciting element. Fortunately...brethren on the periodic table. WEBELEMENTS...chemical elements. The Web...WEBWISE: The periodic table of elements offers the...information on each element for both...confirmed elements. Mr. Winter...for growing silicon and ...
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Equilibrium solid solubility of silicon in silver
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; ...solidification in the silver-silicon system, no variation in...equilibrium solid solubility of silicon in silver is very small...Pearson,[13] none of the elements standing close to silicon in the periodic table has a marked effect on the...
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Analysis: Periodic table of elements
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The good element guide. (satire on Mendeleyev's periodic table of elements)
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The periodic table.(Brief article)
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; The periodic table is a systematic...organize Earth's elements, substances that...and named chemical elements, Elements are arranged according...lightest known natural element on Earth. Scientists...t listed on the periodic table. it's your...B Iodine (I) C Silicon ...
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Silicon-based optical-microwave integrated circuits. (Technical Feature: Lightwave Series)
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