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PBS
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English
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The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the most profound change in the history of human enterprise; the unleashing of the elemental force within Uranium. Join host Dr. Derek Muller on a global adventure to reveal the cultural, scientific, and natural history of the most wondrous and terrifying rock on Earth.
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English
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The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, Irene Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her husband...
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I Spy Fly Guy volume Book 19
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Cartwheel Books
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English
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When Fly Guy snacks from a radioactive trash can, he grows until he is fifty feet tall--and Buzz has to find out a way to counteract the effect before the army attacks his pet.
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Elements volume 15
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Grolier Educational
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English
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Grade 5-8. Designed to link the study of chemistry to familiar?or at least commonly encountered?substances, devices, and processes, this heavily illustrated set provides background support for science projects and reports at several levels of expertise. Thirty-six elements are considered, one (or a small related group) per volume; at least four sizes of type are used to signal level of detail. Knapp discusses each element's discovery, forms, extraction,...
6) Marie Curie
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Troll Associates
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English
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A biography of the Polish-born scientist who, with her husband, was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for discovering radium.
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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, Scholastic
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English
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"Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Marie later won another Nobel for chemistry in 1911.)...
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Sourcebooks eXplore
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English
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"What if superheroes didn't have supernatural powers, but were humans with incredible drive, who worked really hard to expand their knowledge? What if our superheroes were scientists? This first book in the My Super Science Heroes series is about Marie Curie and her many glowing achievements. Using a fictionalized storytelling approach, readers will learn about Marie Curie's many accomplishments, the power of persistence, and will feel empowered to...
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