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[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 95 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Just to note: Marie Curie's lab books cannot be handled without protective gear and are stored in lead containment boxes because of all the new chemistry she discovered.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ehh radioactivity is squarely in physics

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Leaving aside that chemical reactions can absolutely produce radiation, when you're on the cutting edge these things get blurry.

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

(not nuclear radiation, which is what curie was working with largely)

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