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Question : 9

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SI: One of the many young scientists who chose to throw in their lot with Rutherford was an Oxford physical chemist, Frederick Soddy.
S6 : We now know that Gamma rays are a particularly fierce form of X-rays.
P : His association with Rutherford lasted only two years, but that was long enough to change the whole face of physics.
Q : He was just 23.
R : They found that thorium changed into a new element, thorium X, and in the process gave off what was apparently a gas and at the same time a third type of ray, which they named after the Greek letter ‘Gamma’.
S : When he teamed up with Rutherford, they investigated thorium which, as Marie Curie had shown, was radioactive.
The proper sequence should be

P Q S R
Q P S R
Q P R S
Q S R P

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