Introduction to Radiochemistry BY Gerharf Friedlander Chemist
Brookhaven National Laboratory Visiting Lecturer, Washington
University, St. Louis AND Joseph W. Kennedy Professor of Chemistry
Washington University, St. Louis 1949 JOHN WILEY SONS, INC., NEW
YORK CHAPMAN HALL, LIMITED, LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1949 BY JOHN WILEY
SONS, INC. All Rights Reserved This book or any part thereof must
not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the
publisher. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA To JOYCE CLENNAM
STEARNS PREFACE An increasing number of universities are offering
courses in radioactivity for chemists. Very likely many teachers
and stu dents in these courses feel as we do that there has been no
suitable textbook for this purpose. There is the very excellent
Manual of Radioactivity by G. Hevesy and F. A. Paneth however,
advances in the science since its last edition, in 1938, have been
more than any authors should have to expect in one decade.
Moreover, no recent book on the subject has been written
specifically for chem ists. We have tried to prepare a textbook for
an introductory course in the broad field of radiochemistry, at the
graduate or senior undergraduate level, taking into account the
degree of pre vious preparation in physics ordinarily possessed by
chemistry students at that level. We would like to offer
definitions of terms, including radio chemistry, nuclear chemistry,
tracer chemistry, and radiation chemistry that are heard
increasingly today. Unfortunately, the meanings of some of these
vary from laboratory to laboratory, and they are hardly used
concisely at all. By one group nuclear chem istry is used to mean
all applications of chemistry and nuclearphysics to each other
including stable-isotope applications . How ever, to our minds
nuclear chemistry emphasizes the reactions of nuclei and the
properties of resulting nuclear species, just as organic chemistry
is concerned with reactions and properties of organic compounds. We
think of tracer chemistry as the field of chemical studies made
with the use of isotopic tracers, including studies of the
essentially pure tracers at extremely low concen trations. In the
title of this book we have meant the term radio chemistry to
include all the fields just described, but to exclude
stable-isotope tracer applications. Radiation chemistry, which is
not discussed in this text, deals with the chemical effects
produced by nuclear and other like radiations, and although it
involves some of the phenomena of radiochemistry it is really
closely related to photochemistry. Some comments on the order in
which the subject matter is presented are perhaps appropriate. We
believe that the sequence viii PREFACE of chapters after chapter VI
is the logical one the order of presen tation of the material of
the first five chapters is much more nearly a matter of individual
choice. Our plan, which we have found quite teachable, is to use
the historical background as a brief introduction to the concepts
and terminology this makes the going much easier in the succeeding
topics. Chapter V actually follows logically after chapter I, and
nothing in the arrangement of the material prevents its
introduction there if preferred, but we feel that it is more
effective first to present further descriptive information about
atomic nuclei and nuclear reactions than to confront the student at
this point with the quantitativetreatment of growth and decay
processes. The development of the subject matter in this book has
grown out of an introductory course in radiochemistry, first given
in the informal Los Alamos University in the latter part of 1945 by
the authors principally G. F. with the help of Drs. R. W. Dodson
and A. C. Wahl, and offered each year since in the Department of
Chemistry at Washington University, St. Louis, by one of us J. W.
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