Half Life
Resources
- Historical
- A Radioactive Substance Emitted from Thorium Compounds. Ernest Rutherford. Philosophical Magazine Series 5. Vol. 49 No. 296 (January 1900): 1–14.
- Catlog of Known and Putative Nuclear Explosions from Unclassified Sources, James E. Lawson Jr, Oklahoma Geological Survey
- radioisotopic dating
- General
- c14dating.com, Tom Higham, Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Waikato, New Zealand
- radiocarbon.org, University of Arizona
- technical
- Radiocarbon Concentration in Modern Wood. Hans E. Suess. Science. Vol. 122, No. 3166 (2 September 1955): 415–417.
- Short-Lived Isotopic Chronometers: A Means of Measuring Decadal Sedimentary Dynamics [7Be, 14C, 137Cs, 210Pb]. Charles W. Holmes. US Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-073-98 (1998).
- Radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin. P. E. Damon, et al. Nature. Vol. 337 (16 February 1989): 611–615.
- Retrospective Birth Dating of Cells in Humans. Kirsty L. Spalding, Ratan D. Bhardwaj, Bruce A. Buchholz, Henrik Druid, Jonas Frisén. Cell. Vol. 122 No. 1 (15 July 2005): 133–143.
- Miscellaneous
- Carbon Dating Service, best new Canadian band name of 2006
- Der Tod startet die Stoppuhr <webmuseen.de>. Source of the phrase "Death starts the stopwatch." This webpage has gone 404, but the phrase lives on. The global plagiarism vortex keeps it alive.
- Radioactive Alcohol. Periodic Table of Videos. YouTube (28 April 2011). If your alcoholic drink is radioactive — that's a good thing!
- General
- radioisotope thermoelectric generators (rtg)
- NASA
- National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
- Office of Nuclear Energy, US Department of Energy
- Space Radioisotope Power Systems, April 2002. Copies saved on a website owned by the American Nuclear Society.
- Powering Curiosity: Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators, 29 January 2008
- New Horizons Mission Powered by Space Radioisotope Power Systems, 30 January 2008
- Powering Curiosity: Lab Tech Goes to Mars, 6 August 2012
- Space Power Systems, no date
- Next Generation Radioisotope Generators, no date