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Show New Metal Discovered. Prof. Marckwald of the Berlin University Uni-versity announced at the last meeting Ol the Physical Society that he had discovered a new element, radio-active and of extraordinary e lergy. He has separated it from radii -active bismuth, so-called polonium, Pmnd in uramium ore. It. consists su'jstantally of ordinary ordi-nary bismuth and jf a new metal in the propoition of a thousand to one. The new metal -'an be separated by the electrolytic process. The rays it emits are something like those of the metal radium, but differ in being almost al-most completely absorbed by paper as well is by glass. |