# The new gas from radium

Author: Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937; Brooks, Harriet, 1876-1933

Genre: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78513

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+new+gas+from+radium+Rutherford&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In a recent number of the Comptes Rendus, an account was given by Curie of the evidence of the existence of a new gas from radium, which possesses remarkable physical properties. A specimen of very radioactive radium was placed in a glass vessel connected with a mercury pump. On exhausting to a low vacuum and allowing the apparatus to stand, the pressure steadily increased. When the very small volume of gas thus collected flowed along the glass tubes, it rendered them phosphorescent, and if left in for some time, rapidly blackened them. The gas itself was powerfully radioactive, _i.e._ it continuously gave out a type of Röntgen rays, which made gases partial conductors of electricity and...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-gas-from-radium-78513/chapters/1/index.md)