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Glossary of scientific and technical terms in bioengineering and biological engineering
Published in Megh R. Goyal, Scientific and Technical Terms in Bioengineering and Biological Engineering, 2018
Radiochemistry is the chemistry of radioactive materials, where radioactive isotopes of elements are used to study the properties and chemical reactions of non-radioactive isotopes (often within radiochemistry the absence of radioactivity leads to a substance being described as being inactive as the isotopes are stable). Much of radiochemistry deals with the use of radioactivity to study ordinary chemical reactions. Radiochemistry includes the study of both natural and man-made radioisotopes.
Chemical and other aspects of Rutherford’s nuclear atom
Published in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2021
At the 1907 meeting of the British Association, Arthur Smithells, a professor of chemistry at the University of Leeds, lamented ‘the invasion of chemistry by mathematics and, in particular, from the sudden appearance of the subject of radio-activity with its new methods, new instruments, and especially with its accompaniment of speculative philosophy’ (Smithells 1907, p. 356). He was tempted to see radiochemistry as ‘a chemistry of phantoms’. At a later meeting of the British Association, this time in 1914 in Australia, the prominent London chemist Henry Armstrong repeated in different words Smithell’s uneasiness concerning the physics imperialism. Rutherford was in the audience listening to Armstrong’s warnings against the dangerous and unacceptable modern ideas such as isotopy in particular.
Bismuth coordination chemistry: a brief retrospective spanning crystallography to clinical potential
Published in Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2021
Andrew H. Bond, Robin D. Rogers
These are but a few examples of high impact, potentially lifesaving applications that are rooted in a fundamental understanding of metal ion structural chemistry, ligand coordination chemistry, and solution speciation along with knowledge of radiochemistry, separation science, radiation biology, and advanced drug development. A successful clinical deployment of a radiopharmaceutical requires a broadly interdisciplinary scientific approach, and it is hoped that the select opportunities highlighted herein are useful in attracting emerging talent into a mature field that appears to be undergoing a welcome renaissance.
Gender Equality Paradise Revisited: The Dynamics of Gender Disbalance in Russian Engineering from the Late Soviet Time to the 2010s
Published in Engineering Studies, 2022
Nikolay Rudenko, Irina Antoshchuk, Roman Maliushkin, Liliia Zemnukhova
The growing number of engineers entailed the growing number of women engineers. Women were significantly represented in programming, chemistry, radiochemistry, and mechanical engineering.17 Since the 1970s, the share of women among research personnel was around a half.18 While women comprised around half of all active engineering personnel, they were primarily concentrated in middle- and low-level jobs. Women tended to be paid less than men; they were the first to be fired, and they were under the command of men.19