Introduction The Radioactive Boy Scout takes place in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan in 1955 with the Hahn family. The Hahn family lived 25 miles from Detroit in a suburb called Golf Manor. David Hahn is the son of Ken and Patty Hahn, and is a single child. He has blonde hair, hazel green eyes, and freckled face and was very polite. David fascinated himself with chemistry by reading “Popular Mechanics” and “The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments”. David is trying to build a breeder reactor for his Boy Scout merit project. He is trying to make this project in his mom’s potting shed. Key Idea 1 One of David’s tools for working was an element called radium. Radium at this time it was one of the most expensive substances on the planet, it cost about three million dollars per ounce. It was highly advised to not be using radium because it was causing many deaths to the scientist using it. The harmful element was helpful for very bright lights and X-rays, in fact, one women accidentally licked radium and it made her whole body glow. Radium is 88 on the periodic table, it is alkaline metal, and is very radioactive. …show more content…
This element is used in water, H2O, H stands for hydrogen. Hydrogen is not a metal, but is very metallic at some different temperatures. It was founded in 1670, by an English scientist Robert Boyle while experimenting in his lab. Hydrogen is not radioactive and is not harmful to the
Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. He often conducted experiments in his basement and enjoyed making things such as homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and even making his own self-tanning lotion. Hahn especially loved chemistry and spent much of his time doing amateur chemistry experiments. The chemical reactions in these experiments sometimes went wrong and resulted in small explosions. We learned about chemical reactions in class this semester. He loved to read “The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments” that his father had given him and tried to collect samples of every element in the periodic table, including the radioactive ones. We learned in class about the elements in the periodic table and how they are identified.
Heart 2 Heart farms has a program called the “Piglet Foster Program”. This organization allows families like us to foster a piglet for 5 weeks. City Pigs are the cutest addition to any home. We can provide our pig with a sweet home, food, and most importantly, love. In return, the piglet bestows a close family relationship and a strong bond that will last a lifetime.
The 9th Circuit Federal Court recently affirmed a district court case that upholds an ATF interpretation on medical marijuana card holders and the purchase of firearms. The court’s decision makes it illegal for an individual to possess, transfer, or purchase firearms if they hold a medical marijuana card.
Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David 's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Not worried about being safe and taking the pre-cautions, he plunged into a new project: building a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed. In the Radioactive Boy Scout, veteran journalist Ken Silverstein recreates- in brilliant detail-the months of David 's improbable nuclear quest. Acting as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the United States government and from industry experts. Shopping antiques stores and looking through junkyards for old-fashioned smoke
John Dalton was a renowned chemist born in Eaglesfield, England on September 6th, 1766. Dalton is known for his teachings of James Prescott Joule, the atomic theory, and Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures. Dalton did much to contribute to the wide world of chemistry as a whole. Dalton is best known for his contribution to the modern atomic theory. Born in 1766, John Dalton faced many obstacles while studying chemistry. Although many obstacles were faced, Dalton still achieved becoming one of the best known chemists of all time. Before John Dalton, the majority of people did not understand the makeup of an element and why it could be held together. But Dalton came up with the modern atomic theory, explaining the basics of atoms. And also
Hydrogen was first found in later 16th century but it was not confirmed as a kind of chemical element by Henry Cavendish before 1766. It is a chemical element with symbol H and atomic number 1. That means it is the first one on the periodic table and each atom just has one proton and one electron.And with a standard atomic weight of 1.008, hydrogen is the lightest element on the periodic table. In addition ,it is the most abundant chemical substance in the Universe, constituting roughly 75% of all baryonic mass. On Earth,most of hydrogen exists in molecular forms such as water or organic compounds
Rhenium, pronounced REE-nee-em, was the last naturally occurring element to be discovered. It was found by the German chemists Ida Tacke-Noddack, Walter Noddack and Otto Carl Berg in the year of 1925 (Rhenium - Element Information). They named the element after the Rhine River river in Germany since that was the country of which they were from. Rhenium does not have any other aliases which is why its element symbol of “Re” is not very different from its actual name. It holds the atomic number of 75 and is located in group seven and period six on the periodic table (Gagnon). With it being a special element and a metal, rhenium is a member of the transition metal group along with other elements such as tungsten and platinum. The transition metals
Californium was discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles. It is the heaviest element by weighable amounts. Very radioactive and harmful. One gram of californium cost 27 million dollars
They had discovered two new radioactive elements, and named them polonium and radium. They wanted to study the radioactive element more closely but they could only get tiny amounts of these elements. It took more than three years for them to collect less than one gram of
Mercury, discovered at 700 BC. This was known to the Ancient chinese and Ancient indians before 2000 BC and found in egyptian tombs from 1500BC. Nickel was discovered at 1751BC. After Iron, Nickel was believed to be the most element in the earth. It is used for the production of corrosion resistant alloys. Uranium was discovered at 1789, It has been used to color glass and ceramics. Today it is used for the production of nuclear fuel and weapons. 1791 was when titanium was discovered. Although it was discovered at this time, there wasn’t a use for it until 1940. It was used for
The Curies were getting worse symptoms day by day as they worked hard experimenting with the element, radium (Birch 46). While Marie Curie started becoming extremely sick, Pierre Curie did as
Originally Dorn had coined the term “radium emanation” for this newly founded gas. Among other names that were tossed around were “niton”, meaning “shining” in the Latin vocabulary, but by 1923, the official name was changed to radon. 1,2
Religion.” “Dracula,” by Bram Stoker used this element all through his book. Abraham Van Helsing was this element. Like “Dracula,” “Of Love and other Demons,” also use this element. Science is always questioned by Religion throughout the book.
The Curies went through several tons of uranium to find what they were looking for because though not as rare as Polonium, one ton of Radium usually contains about 0.14 grams of of Radium. According to Wikipedia.com it states “Radium can be used to produce the radioactive gas radon that is used to treat certain types of cancer”. Currently Radium has no other uses besides it’s use nuclear
They now began the tedious and monumental task of isolating these elements so that their chemical properties could be determined. During the next four years, working in a leaky wooden shed, they processed a ton of pitchblende, laboriously isolating from it a fraction of a gram of radium. In 1903,