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UNINA9910139181103321 |
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Autore |
Bernstein Jeremy <1929-> |
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Plutonium [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the world's most dangerous element / / Jeremy Bernstein |
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Sydney, N.S.W., : New South, 2009, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Plutonium |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-182) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Blank Page; Blank Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; I Preamble; II The History of Uranium; III The Periodic Table; IV Frau Röntgen's Hand; V Close Calls; VI Fissions; VII Transuranics; VIII Plutonium Goes to War; IX Los Alamos; X Electrons; XI Now What?; Notes; Credits; Index |
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Historically fascinating and scientifically rigorous, Plutonium tells the story of a rare and exotic element put to deadly use in atomic bombs, from its discovery to the present day. From the discovery of uranium in 1789 to the Manhattan Project, from Nazi efforts to build a nuclear bomb to the cold war between the USA and USSR, Bernstein tells the important story of one of nature's rarest elements, put to deadly use in nuclear weapons. Along the way, he paints revealing pen portraits of scientists who helped discover the element and produce it in vast quantities during World War II-from Marie |
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UNISALENTO991002010469707536 |
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Titolo |
Aerosol remote sensing / edited by Jacqueline Lenoble, Lorraine Remer, Didier Tanré |
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Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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xxxviii, 390 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Lenoble, Jacqueline |
Remer, Lorraine |
Tanré, Didier |
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Disciplina |
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Atmospheric aerosols - Optical properties |
Atmospheric aerosols - Remote sensing |
Radiative transfer |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Absorption and Scattering by Molecules and Aerosols -- Radiative Transfer in the Earth's Atmosphere -- Direct Observation of the Sun -- Observation of the Difuse Solar Radiation and the Influence of Aerosols: Determination of Aerosol Optical Properties from Direct and Inverse Methods -- Passive Shortwave Remote Sensing from the Ground -- Shortwave Remote Sensing from Space -- Major Recent or Present Instruments for Shortwave Remote Sensing -- Longwave Passive Remote Sensing -- Active Lidar Remote Sensing -- Results -- The Present Situation -- Plans for Future Research. |
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This book gives a much needed explanation of the basic physical principles of radiative transfer and remote sensing, and presents all the instruments and retrieval algorithms in a homogenous manner. The editors provide, for the first time, an easy path from theory to practical algorithms in one easily accessible volume, making the connection between theoretical radiative transfer and individual practical solutions to retrieve aerosol information from remote sensing, and providing the specifics and intercomparison of all current and historical retrieval methods. |
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