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Excerpt from The Wonders of Radium<br/><br/>This brief discourse is intended to place before you, in a popular manner, the wonders of Radium, which have revolutionised modern Science, and indeed, hold out the promise of giving to mankind new powers, undreamt of.a few years ago. It is necessary to omit all calculations, technical data, and various delicate experiments, from which the facts here given were obtained, and many of these facts, moreover, cannot be accepted as perfectly accurate, since it is desired to avoid a considerable amount of technicality which must otherwise be introduced, if the subject is to be treated from a purely scientific standpoint. My object is to explain to the mind which is not technical, the wonders of radio-active matter, and the results possible from the discovery. Consequently, the simplest language and the simplest methods must be employed. I have taken my facts in a large measure from the papers and works of Professors Rutherford, Strutt, Soddy, Makover, Sir William Ramsay, Sir J. J. Thomson, the Curies, Becquerel, and others. It was Becquerel who first investigated the radio-active nature of Uranium; and later the Curies, when examining Uranium ore for radio-active properties, found some minerals far more active than would have been expected, and naturally concluded that there must be something more in the material than the Uranium they were examining. The result was the discovery of a highly radio active substance called Polonium, which is in fact a substance produced from Radium during its disintegration. Later, the Curies found the element known as Radium, which Madame Curie was recently able to obtain in a metallic state, but which could not be kept in that state owing to its rapid combination with other elements. In fact, Radium is generally used in the form of a bro mide, sulphate, or other combination.
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