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by a radioactive envelope a screen should
If an active body be surrounded by a radioactive envelope, a screen should prevent this body from receiving any impression from outside, and yet there is no diminution apparent in the activity presented by a certain quantity of radium when it is lowered to a depth of 800 metres under ground, in a region containing a notable quantity of pitchblende.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien PoincarĂ©

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