Question

Which statement below describes the relationship of sunlight to becquerel's discovery if radiation

Answer 1

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was a German scientist who discovered x-rays through the use of Crookes tube, a tube he used in studying cathode rays that emitted new kinds of invisible ray that was capable of penetrating through a black paper.

After hearing such discovery, Henri Becquerel, a French scientist had also took interest in the connection between the phosphoresence he had already been investigating and the newly discovered rays. He thought that the phosphoresence uranium salts he had been observing and studying might absorb sunlight and emit it as x-rays.

To test such idea which was disproved later on, Becquerel wrapped photographic plates in black paper so that sunlight could not reach them. He then placed the crystals of uranium on top of the wrapped plates and put the whole set up outside, exposed under the sun.

When he developed the plates, he saw an outline of the uranium crystals. He also placed other objects such as coins or cut out metals between the crystals and the photographic film/plate. It also turned out that he could also produced outlines of those shapes.