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  1. What questions did the discovery of radioactivity raise?

  2. What did research-workers try to do in the beginning?

  3. What did research-workers understand?

  4. What have they found further?

  5. What was the first clue that led to the formulation of some laws?

  6. How can the half-life be defined?

Ex. 19. Read the text and retell it:

The Discovery of X-Rays and Radioactivity

Several great scientific discoveries were made in a period of a few years, beginning in 1895. These discoveries made great changes in chemistry as well as in physics.

X-rays were discovered in 1895, radioactivity was discov­ered in 1896, the new radioactive elements polonium and radium were isolated in the same year, and the electron was discovered in 1897.

W. Rontgen reported that he had discovered a new kind of rays called X-rays. These rays are produced when electri­city is passed through a tube.

The rays are outside of the tube, they radiate from the place where the cathode-ray electrons strike the glass.

Soon after the discovery of X-rays the French physicist Henri Becquerel investigated some minerals containing ura­nium. He found that these minerals emit rays that/like X-rays, can pass through black paper and expose a photographic plate. He also found that the radiation produced by the uranium minerals could, like X-rays, discharge an electroscope.

Marie Curie began a systematic investigation of “Becquerel radiation” using the electroscope as a test. She found that natural pitchblende, an ore of uranium, is several times more active than purified uranjum oxide.

Ex. 20. Listen to the following tape-recorded text and answer the ques-

tions that follow:

The discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896 dispelled the belief that all atoms are permanent. The detected energetic particles were later understood as being emitted when the nuclei of the atoms of a radioactive substance decay spontaneously into other atomic nuclei. The nuclei of

stabJe°n e^emen*s suc^ as hydrogen and oxygen are absolutely

all *1°^ ^veral theoretical reasons to suspect that

is in snmA nUC n1 ^timately decay and hence that all matter one nMbi +Sma! degrece rad!oactive. In a decay of this kind ton nr я WOr types °t particles in the atomic nuclei, a pro-

enerpetic пяггТП’ W1 sPontane°usly transformed into UD ofd lv ni very different from the particles that make up ordinary atoms. Even the lightest nucleus, that of hvdrouen Which consists of a single proton, would be subject to deSy!

9’ Wh6? avi1CLHej?n Bec4uerel discover radioactivity?

  1. What did the discovery of radioactivity dispell?

a wn? can,energetic particles be emitted?

  1. What nuclei can be absolutely stable?

clei decay?* reaS°nS ^ thefe to SUspect that a11 atomic

Grammar: 1. Participle II; when, if + Participle II. To.* m /. No before the Noun, text. Chemical and Physical Changes.

LESSON 12

Ex. 1. Pronounce the following words:

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behaviour [bi'heivjo] further ['foida] sufficiently [so'fifontli] bubble ['ЬлЫ] diminish [di'mmiJJ disappear [(diso'pia] altogether [pilto'geSo]

fire [ faio] familiar [fo'miljol

enough [I'nAf] ’ - •

content ['kontent] unprotected ['лпргэЧекЫ] nevertheless Г nevaSo'lesl cool [ku:l] just [d3Ast]

temporary ['temporori] alteration fpilta'reijnj regain [ri'gem] tf,

Ex. 2. Read fluently the following word combinations: