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AT the commencement of the year 1896, in carrying out some experiments with the salts of uranium, the exceptional optical properties of which I had been studying for some time, I observed that these salts emitted an invisible radiation, which traversed metals and bodies opaque to light as well as glass and other transparent substances. This radiation impressed a photographic plate and discharged from a distance electrified bodies—properties giving two methods for studying the new rays.
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BECQUEREL, H. The Radio-Activity of Matter . Nature 63, 396–398 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063396d0
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