With a colleague named Frederick Soddy he discovered that immense reserves of energy were bound up in these small amounts of matter, and that the radioactive decay of these reserves could account for most of the Earth's warmth.
他与一位名叫弗雷德里克·索迪的同事一起,发现很少量的物质里就储备着巨大的能量,地球的大部分热量都来自这种储备的放射衰变。