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Old October 19th 06, 05:42 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Greg Farris writes:

Well taken - nevertheless, the discovery made by Roentgen is
universally accepted as one of the initial, pioneering steps in the
discovery of radioactivity.


Is it? I should think that it helped towards an understanding of
electromagnetic radiation and the similarity of all frequencies of
radiation, but I don't know that it was connected in any clear way to
radioactive decay. They are two completely different processes.

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