One gram of radium, valued at $120,000, was delivered on July 27 by the Bureau of Standards, of which Dr. S. W. Stratton is Direefor, to Arthur Roeder of New York City, representing the State of New York, to which the radium belongs.
The gram is part of two and one-quarter grams bought by New York State for the Lastitute for Mali: nant Diseases.at Buffalo. Tt will he used in cancer research. The radium has been undergoing a scientific test by the Bureau of Standards, which has established a foremost reputation for scientific effort.
The radium owned by New York represents the first State purchase of radium for social use or any other purpose. It. is the largest amount ever bought at one time. as well as the largest amount ever tested at one time by the Bureau of Standards.
Mr. Roeder said it was due to Governor Smith that the radium was purchased: Its possession, he said, would place New York in the forefront of States working out a treatment for cancer and other malignant growths. New York, according to Mr. Roeder, will become the greatest world centre for research in this connexion.
The gram delivered to-day, said Mr. Roeder, represented 125 tons of ore brought across the continent to his company's extraction plant at Orange, N. J.
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