The Archive · 1934

Cheap Radium Method

Boston, Oct. 21.

The claim that he has discovered a method of transforming "sodium into radium at an insignificant cost, fas compared to the present price for radium, was made here yesterday by Professor Layrange, of the University 'According to the Professor, ordinary sodium, (atomic weight 23), bom-Pbarded' by electric particles known jar deutons, can be transformed into. heavy sodium (atomic weight 24), which disintegrates producing Gamma Rays, similar to those of the radium, but much more powerful and mono-and

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