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01880aam a2200349 i 4500 001 148EAAB6E5FB11EB9DB2ACEA33ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210716010010 008 210623r20212020nyua 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1643137484 020 $a 9781643137483 035 $a (OCoLC)1257425816 040 $a CMI $b eng $c CMI $e rda $d CMI $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d GO3 $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 546/.396 $2 23 100 1 $a Santos, Lucy Jane, $e author. 245 10 $a Half lives : $b the unlikely history of radium / $c Lucy Jane Santos. 246 30 $a Unlikely history of radium 250 $a First Pegasus Books cloth edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th 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 ascendancy as a desirable item -- a present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow-in-the-dark dance costume -- to its role as a supposed cure-all in everyday 20th-century life, when medical practitioners and business people (reputable and otherwise) devised ingenious ways of co modifying the new wonder element, and enthusiastic customers welcomed their radioactive wares into their homes. 650 0 $a Radium $x History $v Popular works. 941 $a 7 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023910.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909065048.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20211009012815.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210902011059.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20210804010229.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20210803010534.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210716010101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=148EAAB6E5FB11EB9DB2ACEA33ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search