Open AccessOn the radium content of basalt
Author(s) -
Robert John Strutt
Publication year - 1910
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1910.0082
Subject(s) - radium , basalt , uranium , igneous rock , geology , mineralogy , geochemistry , radiochemistry , chemistry , nuclear physics , physics
In a former paper I gave measurements of the amount of radium in representative igneous rocks. In the reduction of these measurements a value of the equilibrium ratio between radium and uranium given by Rutherford and Boltwood was used, which has subsequently been corrected by those authors. My results were reprinted with the necessary amendment by Eve and McIntosh. Subsequent to the publication of my first paper other experimenters have made similar measurements, with results in most cases substantially the same.