What are YAG crystals used for? How are new elements created? Find out the answers to these and other fascinating questions in `Uranium and the Rare Earth Metals'. This book investigates the uses for these elements, from tracer bullets to television sets. It explains isotopes, half-lives, and the different forms of radiation. This book explores both the wonderful and terrible ways in which radioactivity is used. Elements in this book: lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, actinium, thorium, protactinium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, and lawrencium.

 

This book is part of a book series called Periodic Table .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Capstone Global Library Ltd .