Show Freaks Breaks and Oddities In Science N News Discovery on land and sea of many new sources of or element 97 one of the two most recently found chemical elements was announced Friday by Dr Fred Allison of Alabama Poly- Poly TELLS HOW nov institute Element 87 has ELEMENT six isotopes or chemical broth WAS VAS SEEN ers and sisters He suggested that tho 87 family be bo christened christened christened christ christ- ened The reported newly-reported facts about clement element 87 were learned through use of the optic magneto method developed by Dr Allison by which he says elements clements can be detected in as small a a. portion as one part in ten billion bUllon Element 87 has been found in sea water brine from Searles lake California monazite sand from Brazil and North Carolina kalnite crude e cesium chloride and Its presence in and has been confirmed by further tests Dr Allison's optic magneto method uses slight differences in the time in which chemical compounds compounds com corn pounds react to magnetic forces to Identify different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent elements clements The difference varies for each compound and therefore for each element clement The reaction times are very short often oHen less than a a. billionth of a second They arc are measured by means of the speed of or light the speed of electricity elec along alone wires Polarized light wl which ch Is passed through the solution becomes extinguished in accord with the variations in the time of applying the magnetic field These extinctions of the light are called minima For each element there is a minimum of light produced at a definite point on a scale and from this the various elements In the solution I Ican can be identified Isotopes of an element element atoms atoms of the element that are exactly alike In everything except weight can can be bo detected with Dr Allison's apparatus because be because be- be because cause apparently each element clement has as many minima as it has isotopes Element 87 has six minima so 50 he concludes It has six isotopes |