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Question
Arrange the following in the chronological order of discovery
Nuclear reactor, radioactivity, artificial radioactivity, discovery of radium.
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Solution
- Radioactivity (1896)
- Discovery of radium (1898)
- Artificial radioactivity (1934)
- Nuclear reactor (1942).
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