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Show URANIUM MAY BE USED IN MONETORY SYSTEM That uranium, the s atomic energy, may becom'8 basis of the world's monetae k tern was suggested recently Prof. Farrington Daniels ? ly of the metallurgical laborat the University of Chicago 81 In an article on "Peacetime n of Atomic Power" in the issue of Chemical and Ew' ing News, publication 0, American Chemical Society n Daniels asserted that since a en quantity of the metal is lent to a definite number of!?' watt hours of energy having a 7 tential value comparatively f from price fluctuations, urnani would provide a more stable J etary basis than does gold Chief difficulty in establish such a standard, he pointed would be that relatively Sl!"r amounts of high-grade uranb are known to exist since it not an important metal before it war and was mined chiefly f0 radium content. Now, since it f, become perhaps the most vX ble of all elements, it will be sou more intensively than in the X he added. |