Friday, February 6, 2009

post # 2 ROAR number 3

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-the first Nobel prizes weree awarded in 1901
-In 1915 radium was selling at an incredible $135,00 a gram
-X-rays were band at soem point because people thought others could use them see through there clothes
-the cause of yellow fever was unkown in 1899
-the first x-ray was invented in 1895
4 questions
-y were x-rays so popular?
- why didnt the guy who invented X-rays think it was a big deal?
-why were X-rays found useful?
-When did they become so useful?
3vocabulary
endeavor-to attempt
impenetrable-not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
deceptively-perceptually misleading
2 literary terms
"permantly on a photographic plate' aliteration
'diying of diabetes' aliteration
1 over view sentence
this chapter spoke mostly on X-rays

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