Show TRANSMUTATION OF METALS McCoy C I iii f j fea Says s It I Is I Noc Po Chicago Jan That the tho changing of ot elemental metals metal Into ono olio another Is Isnow I Ino now non no was vas the startling claim made yesterday esterday by Prof Herbert Horbelt N McCoy of at the tho University of ot Chicago at the tho final filial meeting of ot the American As Association sedation for the tho Advancement of or Sel ence The ancient dream of ot the tho separation or lJ of ot tho lie elements clemelts antedates the whole science of chemistry Is being ful tul ul filled tIM by b the Iho processes of ot nature anti Ind th lie effect elect of lt radium emanation It Is li ut at by b the chemIst who tio road a LL paper on The Interrelations of the 11 Ulc Ele Elements ments meats The new now theory Is based on original Investigation Into hilo the Ibo nature of the atom and experiments believed to shatter many famous scientific hypotheses ses Ito In lii support of ot his statement that the tho elements may n n no 10 longer bo lie u considered Immutable and and that matters of but one sort ort subject to changes Prof McCOy McC Y told of ot the production of ot dif event ferent metals from elements in his own laboratory Tho The presence or of ivo me conditions In the tho atoms Is held lild re no for tho lie changes hell r The Tho discovery of ot radium melum IB is II an Import aol ant link In II tho the theory and alC tho the radio active ac lv changes hanges Jn naturu give the best examples of separation hof n of elements best Tim Tho study of o radium IB uti likely o 0 prove a complete complot solution of The tho problem nf ot transmutation now aai but l c he lio declares 2 |