Chapter 11
Why did common salt being made in India become banned initially?
Because the health benefits became clearer and India modernized.
How did the three astronauts in training die tragically?
The Astronauts burned to death while training for Apollo 1
How did Marie Sklodowska end up in Paris?
She ended up in paris beacuse she wanted to get a PHD and ended up staying because she fell in love with Pierre Curie.
How was Hahn’s character proved in 1943?
Hahn diddnt belive it so he politely told Frédéric Joliot-Curie that the lanthanum link was hogwash and he should redo it.
Why is iodine added to salt?
Iodine was added to salt because it was the cheapest and most effective health measure a government can take to prevent birth defects and mental illinese.
What affect does tellurium on the body?
If someone spills even a tiny bit of tellurium on them, they will smell like garlic for weeks.
What does the term “refugee scientist” mean?
A scientist whose population exploded during the twernthieth century.
How did the politics in Germany play a role in Meitner and Hahn’s work?
Hahn resigned his professorship in protest. Meitner downplayed the danger and buried herself in scintllating new discoveries in nuclear physics.
What do the one type of taste bud detect?
The taste buds for bitterness examine food, mainly plant for posison.
What is the issue surrounding beryllium and the body?
Beryllium can cause people to suffocate.
Who are the four refugee scientists that the book discusses?
Marie Sklodowska,
Albert Einstein,
Enrico Fermi,
Lise Meitner
How did WW1 play a role in the chemistry versus physics debacle?
Chemists distrusted Hevesy because of his dual sitestif in chemistry and physics, and this, together with political protests, stopped the Nobel committee from awarding him a degree. Instead, the 1924 award was left unfilled.
What do the two types of taste bud detect?
The taste buds for sweet and sour can be easily confused. Berlium tricks them as dose a certain type of protein in barries of some plants.
What are the atomic masses on the periodic table for iodine and tellurium?
iodine-126.90 tellurium-127.60
How was radium received in the world?
Radium appeared in consumer products.
What caused issues around the discovery of element 72?
Many scientist didn't know for sure that element 72 was an earth metal.
Why is taste a really bad guide to sorting elements?
Taste is a really bad guide to shorting elements because the same element could taste different just by their different concentrations.
What are the four pairs of elements that disrupt the atomic weight trend on the periodic table?
Iodine,tellurium, cobalt-nickel, argon-potassium, thorium-protactinium
What happened to Marie’s daughter?
Marie’s daughter suffered at the hands of polonium.
How did Hevesy use science in his quest to improve his dinner menu?
He'd begun to consider the possibility of injecting minute amounts of dissolved lead into a living creature and then following the element's course since the organism would metabolize both radioactive and nonradioactive information in the same manner. The radium-D would generate radioactive beacons as I moved.