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Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium Audiobook by Lucy Jane Santos
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 550593
Title: Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
Author: Lucy Jane Santos
Narrator: Deirdre Whelan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:37:49
Language: English
Release date: 07-06-21
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics, Philosophy
Summary:
The fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday life
Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal.
Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable itema present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow-in-the-dark dance costumeto its role as a supposed cure-all in everyday twentieth-century life, when medical practitioners and business people (reputable and otherwise) devised ingenious ways of commodifying the new wonder element, and enthusiastic customers welcomed their radioactive wares into their homes.
Lucy Jane Santosherself the proud owner of a formidable collection of radium beauty treatmentsdelves into the stories of these products and details the gradual downfall and discredit of the radium industry through the eyes of the people who bought, sold, and eventually came to fear the once-fetishized substance.
Half Lives is a new history of radium as part of a unique examination of the interplay between science and popular culture.
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 550593
Title: Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
Author: Lucy Jane Santos
Narrator: Deirdre Whelan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:37:49
Language: English
Release date: 07-06-21
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics, Philosophy
Summary:
The fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday life
Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal.
Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable itema present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow-in-the-dark dance costumeto its role as a supposed cure-all in everyday twentieth-century life, when medical practitioners and business people (reputable and otherwise) devised ingenious ways of commodifying the new wonder element, and enthusiastic customers welcomed their radioactive wares into their homes.
Lucy Jane Santosherself the proud owner of a formidable collection of radium beauty treatmentsdelves into the stories of these products and details the gradual downfall and discredit of the radium industry through the eyes of the people who bought, sold, and eventually came to fear the once-fetishized substance.
Half Lives is a new history of radium as part of a unique examination of the interplay between science and popular culture.
Contact: [email protected]