Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, Volume 12: Circadian Clocks (Handbooks of Behavioral Neurobiology)

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The Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiolog y series deals with the aspects of neurosciences that have the most direct and immediate bearing on behavior. It presents the most current research available in the specific areas of sensory modalities. This volume explores circadian rhythms.

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Radiochemistry or Nuclear Chemistry is the study of radiation from an atomic or molecular perspective, including elemental transformation and reaction effects, as well as physical, health and medical properties.

This revised edition of one of the earliest and best known books on the subject has been updated to bring into teaching the latest developments in research and the current hot topics in the field. In order to further enhance the functionality of this text, the authors have added numerous teaching aids that include an interactive website that features testing, examples in MathCAD with variable quantities and options, hotlinks to relevant text sections from the book, and online self-grading texts.

As in the previous edition, readers can closely follow the structure of the chapters from the broad introduction through the more in depth descriptions of radiochemistry then nuclear radiation chemistry and finally the guide to nuclear energy (including energy production, fuel cycle, and waste management).

New edition of a well-known, respected text in the specialized field of nuclear/radiochemistry
Includes an interactive website with testing and evaluation modules based on exercises in the book
Suitable for both radiochemistry and nuclear chemistry courses

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Review of Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry.......2004-12-19

This book is well written in a very readable style. It is logical in its approach and covers a wide variety of topics within the nuclear sciences. It should appeal to the serious scholar of radiochemistry at both the undergraduate or postgraduate level. It is also worthy of note that the authors have dedicated the book to Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg.

The new edition of a well-known, respected text in the specialized field of nuclear chemistry includes an interactive website with testing and evaluation modules based on exercises in the book.

Although the text does not cover practical radiometric separations in great detail, it does provide the reader with a strong overview of this important field of science.

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Review of Nuclear and Radiochemistry

Nuclear and Radiochemistry, 3rd Edition
G. Friedlander , J. W. Kennedy , E. S. Macias , and J. M. Miller
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ASIN: 047186255X

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Introduction to Radiation Chemistry Third Edition J. W. T. Spinks and R. J. Woods The only single source guide to radiation chemistry has now been expanded to include new material on applied radiation chemistry and experimental methods, as well as gaseous and solid systems. Other enhancements include broadened coverage of chemical reactions initiated by high-energy and their commercial applications, as well as new topics related to kinetics and experimental procedures. The Third Edition features numerical data in Sl units, simplifying most radiation-chemical calculations, an expanded problem section, and key references updated to reflect recent research. 1990 (0 471-61403-3) 574 pp. The Elements Beyond Uranium Glenn T. Seaborg and Walter D. Loveland Written by the team of Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg—an active participant in the discovery of transuranium elements—and leading chemist, Walter Loveland, here is a unique inside account of the discovery of these elements as well as the first definitive look at their chemical, physical, and nuclear properties. The book contains detailed discussions of nuclear synthesis reactions, experimental techniques, natural occurrence, superheavy elements, practical applications, and predictions for the future, as well as such special features as excerpts from original notebooks, pictures of element discovery teams, and up-to-date tables of nuclear properties. 1990 (0 471-89062-6) 359 pp.

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Review of Nuclear and Radiochemistry.......2004-12-19

The second edition of this text is one that has been utilized in many graduate programs. In fact, the author of this review has utilized it not only as a student but as a teaching text in several courses.

No single text contains all that is needed for an immense field of study such as radiochemistry. However, it should also be pointed out that the weakness in this text is that although it does a thorough job of covering "nuclear basics" it is very short on the "radiochemistry" side of the field. Having said this, it is a must have text for any serious student in the field.

The third edition also includes an account of discovery of the elements beyond uranium. This section is a first hand account by Glenn T. Seaborg and Walter D. Loveland the team of Nobel Laureates that lead to their discovery. Both Glenn Seaborg-an active participant in the discovery of transuranium elements-and leading chemist, and Walter Loveland, provide a unique inside account of the discovery of these elements as well as the first definitive look at their chemical, physical, and nuclear properties.

The Transuranium People: The Inside Story

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A look at the People behind the Atoms
A partisan history of the heaviest elements

The Transuranium People: The Inside Story
Darleane C. Hoffman , and Albert Ghiorso
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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ASIN: 1860940870

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In this highly interesting book, three pioneering investigators provide an account of the discovery and investigation of the nuclear and chemical properties of the twenty presently known transuranium elements. The neutron irradiation of uranium led to the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 and then to the first transuranium element, neptunium (atomic number 93), in 1940. Plutonium (94) quickly followed and the next nine elements completed the actinide series by 1961. Investigation of the chemical properties of the actinides was followed more recently by chemical studies of the first three transactinides - rutherfordium (104), hahnium (105), and seaborgium (106). Recent discoveries have extended the known elements to 112.

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A look at the People behind the Atoms.......2005-09-25

This is truly a facinating book about real people, not 2-dimensional facts on paper. The people leading the work to create and then discover man-made atoms, written by the people themselves.

A wonderful insight into the lives, trials, and tribulations -- as well as the joys, excitement, and successes of these people.

Having known Glenn Seaborg, and knowing Darleane Hoffman, I can hear their personality and excitement for their work bubble through the pages of this book.

Recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of science, regardless of whether you are professionally engaged in the field, or just an interested reader.

A partisan history of the heaviest elements.......2001-01-10

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its predecessor organizations have been home to the discovery of more elements with atomic number greater than 92 than anyplace else in the world, beginning in 1940 with the discovery of element 93, neptunium, by Edwin McMillan and Philip Abelson at the University of California's Radiation Laboratory.

Not all these achievements were undisputed, and the arguments are far from settled. Although many of the issues are not matters a nonspecialist can judge, a lively sense of history still unfolding is one of this book's fascinations. In addition to the volume's official page count, there are an extra 93 pages of front matter -- most of it a long preface titled "Intimate glimpses of the authors' early lives," which is an intriguing minivolume in itself.

Of Darleane Hoffman, winner of the American Chemical Society's Joseph Priestley medal, we learn that in 1952 the personnel department at Los Alamos ruined her chance to participate in the discovery of elements 99 and 100 (einsteinium and fermium). Arriving from Oak Ridge to take up a job in the short-handed radiochemistry group there, Hoffman was told that "we don't hire women in that Division." What's more, her security clearance had somehow been "lost." Meanwhile, in November, new elements had been produced in the world's first thermonuclear explosion, and in December and January they were separated from coral debris from the test site. The personnel-department snafu wasn't cleared up until March.

In 1941 Albert Ghiorso, who worked in the San Francisco Bay Area during the Depression for a supplier of ham radio equipment, was sent to the U.C. Rad Lab to hook up an intercom for the secretaries and to build some Geiger counters. "I was not told that it would be necessary to build hundreds of these devices for Prof. Glenn T. Seaborg's group." By way of consolation, he married one of the secretaries, Wilma Belt.

When Seaborg went to Chicago to join the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory, he asked Ghiorso to come along. Although Ghiorso barely knew Seaborg, he agreed on condition "that I not be asked to build any more G-M [Geiger-Mueller] circuits." Later he learned that Wilma and Helen Griggs, Ernest Lawrence's secretary (soon to be Mrs. Seaborg), had decided between them that Ghiorso belonged in Chicago. There he was to play a crucial role.

Seaborg's life is more familiar than those of his coauthors, but it is interesting to see events usually viewed through the lens of a sometimes grim history -- his discovery of plutonium, his work on the Manhattan Project, later his Nobel Prize, and his chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission during the Kennedy years -- from the fresh perspective of a chemist's fascination with unexplored scientific terrain.

Much of The Transuranium People is grouped into chapters describing the quest for new elements which often came in pairs -- neptunium and plutonium, americium and curium, berkelium and californium, and so on -- for reasons having to do with particular experimental methods or available energies.

Competition, controversy, and compromise were part of the quest from the beginning. In an intriguing chapter called "Naming controversies and the Transfermium Working Group," the authors recount a quarter-century of unsuccessful attempts to end the "dissent and confusion" surrounding credit for discoveries of elements 101 through 109. Element 105 occasioned the worst clash. The authors contend that researchers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna in Russia could not, as they claimed, have isolated element 105 in 1967 by the means described; a different isotope of 105 was made in 1970 at Lawrence Berkeley Lab's HILAC by Ghiorso and four colleagues, who named it hahnium.

Not until 1997 was a compromise reached by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, naming 105 dubnium and at the same time accepting the name seaborgium for element 106 -- "in the interest of international harmony," as the American Chemical Society's Committee on Nomenclature put it. In this book 105 is called hahnium, the name by which it was best known for a quarter century.

The Transuranium People also includes an illuminating discussion of the excitement behind the search for "superheavy elements," those whose stability should increase with increasing atomic weight, notably the possibility that elements in "a 'Magic Island' or 'Island of Stability' with half-lives as long as a billion years might exist."

If so, they might be found in nature. But looking for an element "whose atomic number and chemistry I could only guess at seemed nearly impossible," Hoffman states, although in 1971 she had succeeded in separating minute amounts of plutonium from natural ores. Indeed all such searches have failed.

Instead, superheavies have been produced in accelerators. In 1999 Victor Ninov, Kenneth Gregorich, and their colleagues, working at Berkeley Lab's 88-Inch Cyclotron, created elements 118 and 116. A few months earlier, researchers working at Dubna had reported finding element 114; no one has yet laid claim to 113, 115, or 117. The quest continues -- especially for those with the right number of neutrons and protons to form "magically" stable atoms.

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This book discusses the applications of radioanalytical chemistry across a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary science and technology. This book also explores the history of the field, current trends, and future directions.

Radiochemistry and Nuclear Methods of Analysis (Chemical Analysis: A Series of Monographs on Analytical Chemistry and Its Applications)

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Radiochemistry and Nuclear Methods of Analysis (Chemical Analysis: A Series of Monographs on Analytical Chemistry and Its Applications)
William D. Ehmann , and Diane E. Vance
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Principles of Instrumental Analysis

ASIN: 0471306282

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From nuclear dating methods to nucleosynthesis in stars… it's all here. The first practical, comprehensive guide to the science of radiochemistry. Radiochemistry and Nuclear Methods of Analysis is the first thorough and up-to-date look for the nonspecialist at the fundamentals of radiochemistry as well as the full range of advances currently made possible by the applications of radioactivity. Without an emphasis on high-level mathematics or abstruse theoretical physics, the book provides a clear, fundamentals-first look at radioactivity, the principles of radioactive decay, and nuclear reactions, as well as:

Modern radiochemical instrumentation
Nuclear dating methods
Methods for the production of radionuclides
The use of tracers and nuclear methods of analysis
The origin of the chemical elements
The biological effects of radiation

The book's user-friendly instructional format, designed for both beginning and advanced students, includes numerous end-of-chapter problems ranging from the simple to complex which familiarize the reader with equations and concepts in the text. References to recent monographs, available in most college and university libraries, provide direction to more specialized literature. Invaluable to both students and professionals in search of a practical grasp of the subject, Radiochemistry and Nuclear Methods of Analysis is a clear introduction to radioactivity and radionuclear chemistry's principles, methods, and applications.

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Review of Radiochemistry and Nuclear Methods .......2004-12-19

Although this text was written 1991 it still contains many relevant topics to the field of radiochemistry. Broad topics from nuclear dating methods to nucleosynthesis in star are covered. The text is written for the beginner or "non-specialist" within this field and provides a wide survey for the reader. There is not an emphasis on high-level mathematics or first principles of theoretical physics, the book does provides a clear, "first look" at radioactivity, the principles of radioactive decay, and nuclear reactions, as well as:

* Modern radiochemical instrumentation
* Nuclear dating methods
* Methods for the production of radionuclides
* The use of tracers and nuclear methods of analysis
* The origin of the chemical elements
* The biological effects of radiation

It could be said that although many of the areas addressed are redressed in other relevant texts of its kind, it still provides a useful addition to any serious scientist within the field of radiochemistry.

Good Textbook!.......2000-07-25

Radiochemistry and Nuclear Methods of Analysis is a book based on lectures on that subject. It has been written in a way that is understandable and easy to follow by the Chemistry or Physics student but also by the reader who has never been exposed to this subject before. It is well organized providing the reader information of the discovery of radioactivity and the contributions in this field, the concepts, the applications and the instrumentation used. The text is clear and concise. The text also provide additional reference for the reader who wants to continue reading more about a particular topic given that this book is a survey of the applications of radiochemistry. The tables, illustrations, graphs are easy to follow and the equations are well explained. This book is recommended for those who are interested in this area of Chemistr that usually is briefly mentioned during a General Chemistry course.

Applications of Nuclear and Radiochemistry

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Applications of Nuclear and Radiochemistry
N. A. Morcos
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Applied Modeling and Computations in Nuclear Science (Acs Symposium Series)

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Applied Modeling and Computations in Nuclear Science (Acs Symposium Series)

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This book will broach the topics of applied nuclear science in general, and nuclear chemistry in particular where there is usually a modeling or computational component. Typically one finds several modelers presenting their work in the course of almost every symposium. It's imperative to bring all such theoretical and computational work in applied nuclear science under one umbrella and thats what this book aims to do. The nuclear scientists interested in modeling are lacking a broader forum for their research, as well as a vehicle to enable those learning related techniques. The editors intend to include several topics: radiation risk assessment, radiation transport, contaminant transport, radiation dosimetry, modeling of experiments, detection limits, nuclear data analysis and statistical aspects.

Cation-exchange techniques in radiochemistry (Nuclear science series; radiochemical techniques)

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Cation-exchange techniques in radiochemistry (Nuclear science series; radiochemical techniques)
Desiré L Massart
Manufacturer: Subcommittee on Radiochemistry, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council; [available from National Technical Information Service, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Springfield, Va.]
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CRC Handbook of Radiation Chemistry
Yoneho Tabata , and Yasuo Ito
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Experimental nucleonics,
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