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Half Lives audiobook

  • By: Lucy Jane Santos
  • Narrator: Deirdre Whelan
  • Category: Nuclear, Physics, Science
  • Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2021
  • Language: English
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Half Lives Audiobook 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 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 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 Santos–herself the proud owner of a formidable collection of radium beauty treatments–delves 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.

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Half Lives Audiobook Narrator

Deirdre Whelan is the narrator of Half Lives audiobook that was written by Lucy Jane Santos

About the Author(s) of Half Lives

Lucy Jane Santos is the author of Half Lives

Subjects

The publisher of the Half Lives is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Nuclear, Physics, Science

Additional info

The publisher of the Half Lives is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798200737031.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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