Show I 1 N I 1 U M 11 by henri bonaparte M D sc D in a speech before the W M C soc there was isolated in august last year 1917 what has now been fully established as a new element this element which was discovered and isolated by roy franklin heath an american chemist was named in honor of president woodrow wilson dr heath while undertaking research work involving the radium group observed and later detected a substance which under certain conditions was inert and under other circumstances very active this lead to further investigation which resulted in the discovery isolation and recovery of the rare element Wils and the isolation of the rare gas vivo ius so named because of its chemical variety of official racial abstract from the western metallurgical and chemical society bulletin after systematic research with tranh junn thorium radium and Wils there i is very good reason to believe that the vivious is the true cause of the emanative emanate aa activity of the uranium thorium aroud aroun helium which has been very often stated to be a product of the at n uranium has been fully proven to be an impurity only occurrence while Wils was first recovered from montana monazite mon ozite it has also been detected in the same mineral from idaho washington oregon british columbia and the carolines certain samples from colo cojo rado california utah and wyoming carno tite and other uranium minerals show wil conium it might be stated here that there is no relation whatsoever between the per of thorium or uranium oxide and the quantity of Wils as is the ratio between certain uranium and radium tain sulphides sulp hides and mineral waters hate hare detectable quantities of Wils vivious is present in all cases of radioactivity radio activity in uranium ores Wils is often present as natural having the chem chein kial formula wi U kaoi 0 while in the monazite mono mon ozite zits and minerals it is probably in combination with thorium chiefly as an impurity imparity Wils sulphide has beer been prepared chemically and experiments ani and research with sulphides sulp hides containing it give gitt rise to the belief that the Wils is arese prese present nt as the natural sulphide in most minerals water is present as the sulphate the original and parent sour source cebe be ing the sulphide from which it was os oil dazed chemical and physical considerations consideration from its atomic weight and its chemical chemic nature Wils comes probably jin in fa fam ily I 1 series 12 of the periodical system atomic weight 2165 specific gravity 82 81 melting point 1560 C color greyish grayish brown with metallic luster dull the free metal is soluble in the illo ganic acids partially soluble in acetic sol so liber 1 uble in solutions of the hydroxides abing in each case nascent hydrogen an 0 forming the radical salt with the ackad alkali forn form solutions hydroxides are first which later reduced to the oxide many of these salts and compounds compound I 1 both from the physics ghys phys very interesting 0 all and chemical view they possess nihei characteristics of the radium group the gas vivious is removed they PO poa different properties this is 18 similar to k nic I 1 peri ments which I 1 have recently pen DI 4 with radium uranium and th thorium orlum bayl heaths deaths method of removing this gas I 1 of its enjada made radium chloride devoid U tive characteristic and its ionic conver pa the renewal of vivious s the characteristic charac b return this as I 1 have said delno beyond doubt that the char character acte to t he elf 1 due the radium group is not ments themselves but to vivious the gas of activity helium has also been demonstrated is only an impurity and not the result of the or the cause of ionization this brings us back to the atomic theory without the revolutionary ideas which the radium group has forced upon us conclusion it is impossible to go into the chemistry in ill the short time allotted me here yet it seems very obscure that both Wils and vivious with their characteristic spectrum and chemical properties should have passed unnoticed until quite recently this i may be in part due to the difficulty elpe Irien ced in removing the interfering ele j ments from the scientific view the dincov V ery cry and isolation of Wils and vivious is very important in understanding gods plan of the universe |