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Induced radioactivity, also called artificial radioactivity or man-made radioactivity, is the process of using radiation to make a previously stable material radioactive. [1] The husband-and-wife team of Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie discovered induced radioactivity in 1934, and they shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...
The novel is dedicated "To Frederick Soddy's Interpretation of Radium," a volume published in 1909. Scientists of the time were well aware that the slow natural radioactive decay of elements like radium continues for thousands of years, and that while the rate of energy release is negligible, the total amount released is huge. Wells used this ...
Each of the 7 parts of the novel starts with a word of the Russian mnemonic (see Roy G. Biv) which helps to remember the spectrum colors: "Kazhdy Okhotnik Zhalaet Znatj Gde Sidit Fazan" (Every hunter wants to know where a pheasant sits; K - Krasny, red; O - oranzevy, orange; Zh - zholty, yellow; Z - zelyony, green; G - goluboy, blue; S - siniy, indigo; F - fioletovy, violet).
A light novel (Japanese: ライトノベル, Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular literature novel native to Japan, [citation needed] usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting teens to twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging.
The cover of the first volume of A Certain Magical Index published by Square Enix in Japan on November 10, 2007. A Certain Magical Index is a light novel series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura, which was adapted into a manga series written by Kamachi and illustrated by Chuya Kogino.
In the volumes 11 to 13, 16, and 18 to 19 of the light novel, another spin-off light novel called Red Dragon Women Academy (レッドドラゴン女学院, Reddo Doragon Jogakuin, lit. Red Dragon Girls' Secondary School ) a special story about the character Laika was published at the end of those volumes.
Coppelion (Japanese: コッペリオン, Hepburn: Kopperion) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomonori Inoue. The story follows three high school girls who were genetically engineered to be impervious to radioactivity and sent to Tokyo after the city was contaminated by a nuclear accident.
Mirage of Blaze (炎の 蜃気楼 （ ミラージュ ）, Honō no Mirāju) is a 49-volume Japanese light novel series written by Mizuna Kuwabara, published under Shueisha's Cobalt label. [1] It has sold 6.83 million copies as of January 2018. [ 2 ]