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The discovery of the phenomenon of radioactivity was purely accidental. In 1896, Henry Becquerel, a French scientist accidentally found that in presence of salt of uranium, photographic plates got heavily fogged even though they were wrapped in opaque paper. He concluded that the ur..

The discovery of the phenomenon of radioactivity was purely accidental. In 1896, Henry Becquerel, a French scientist accidentally found that in presence of salt of uranium, photographic plates got heavily fogged even though they were wrapped in opaque paper. He concluded that the uranium ..

In 1896, the phenomenon of radioactivity was accidentally discovered by French scientist Henri Becquerel. He was performing experiments with uranium compounds. He accidentally placed a crystal of potassium uranyl sulphate over photographic plate wrapped with usual black paper. On developing the p..

In 1885, Sir William Crookes carried out a series of investigations into the behaviour of metals heated in a vacuum. The experiment of Crookes and others showed that a heated cathode produced a stream of radiation, which could cause gases at low pressure to glow and which, make other substanc..

Production of anode rays - Since the atom is electrically neutral there must be positively charged particles present in the atom to neutralize the negative charges of the electrons. Goldstein experimentally proved the existence of protons in the ato..

. Thus the relative mass of such a particle = 1 amu and the absolute mass = 1.6 x 10 - 2 4 g. Because of their electrical neutrality, these particles were called neutrons We are now in a position of explain why the atomic mass of carbon is 12. It is now known that the carbon atom contains..

In 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, a German physicist observed, while doing some experiments with the discharge tube, that when cathode rays are allowed to fall on a metal target called anticathode placed in their path, a new kind of rays are produced. These radiations are called..

That part of the electromagnetic spectrum with the wavelength range 10 - 8 m to 10 - 1 2 m are called as X-rays W.C Roentgen, a German physicist discovered X-Rays in the year 1895. A photographic film wrapped in black color paper was found to be exposed when placed near a ..

X-rays and scanners help doctors to learn a great deal about the body as they reveal defects and abnormalities and thus contribute to diagnosi..

Atoms and Nuclei..