GENERAL NEWS.
Sir 'William llamsay, who in his recent experiments Ims gone far .towards proving the suspected transmutation of radium ino helium and other elements, was recently specially honored by the Vienna Academy of Sciences by the loan of a fraction of a gramme'of radium for the purpose of enabling him to continue his valuable investigations. A gramme of radium, it has been calculated, lias stored up in it- energy equal to 1-h.p. for .fifteen days ; but it parts with its energy so slowly—it cannot bo stayed nor hurried—that it takes some lit),000 years to exhaust itself.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2307, 28 September 1908, Page 4
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97GENERAL NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2307, 28 September 1908, Page 4
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