Raios-x: fascinação, medo e ciência X-rays: fascination, fear and science

<abstract language="eng">This work presents the discovery and the use of x-rays at the end of the XIXth and the beginning of the XXth century. X-rays greatly impacted science and everyday life. Their existence broke the idea that knowledge had reached a limiting step. In general, peo...

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Main Authors: Rodrigo da Silva Lima, Júlio Carlos Afonso, Luiz Cláudio Ferreira Pimentel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2009-01-01
Series:Química Nova
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422009000100044