Show I NEW DISCOVERY IN CHEMISTRY IS I CREATING INTEREST I I CHICAGO GO Jan Jau 4 f 1 That That at the tLe ehan changing chang I ill jug ing of ot metals into oue one another another an another I other is now possible was wag tho startling claim made ler yesterday av b by Prof Herbert I i. i N. N McCoy of ot the University of Chica Chicago o at the final meeting of f the I Association s ocil Hon for fOl the tho Advancement ot of Science rho Tho ancient dream of thi tho th n of or the cl elements which antedates the whole science of chemistry is he being u fulfilled ful ful- I filled by hv the processes s of nature an an 1 i the thc t of radium emanation it is al I ah le cd by b the chemist lIt who read r Ia tr trI on Tho Iho Inter of tie the LIe Ele I mont ments The new nc theory is based 01 on ina investigation into the tho nature of cit the i atom and experiments believed tl to shat liat S ter man many famous scientific hypotheses p. p In support of his statement that the tho I 1 elements nay no longer loufer be considered immutable and that matt r of ot but hut one primitive sort subject to chan changes Pro Pro- I fessor cSOr McCoy I Cor told of the tho production of different metals from elements in his own laboratory The presence of ot radio radio- i t active conditions ons iu in the thc atoms is lieu held i responsible for th the lie changes hanCs I Tho fite of the he mi wi iii Hie n ages s then I j I were wrong ron unIv in I t to disintegrate dis- dis inte integrate tue metals L because chemical al I proc processes as I were wore then known acI ac HC ac- ac I cor cording in to D Dr Ir I The Tho dis o f t radium 8 n s 11 1 ti u important import import- S ant Jin link in in the the theory and ana the thc radio radioactive 1 active changes es in m in nature give e the tho best I examples of separation of clem clement cuts The j study of ot radium is Jik I I likely likly ly to prove a t tj complete solution of or the problem of I j transmutation tiow lIOW all nil hut Inn cleared be he i declares S r I S |