Deseret Evening News | 1903-05-12 | Page 12 | The Price of Radium

TUB TilE j In tle View of the Ihl many state men menla that have hare appeared I respecting of or the discovered metal radIum It may be well welt to tD mention that In Prof and anti Madame MI nm Curies urles laboratory In Paris at tile the Eol Ue tie Physique et do dt here Is 18 a n tiny tube of ot chemically pure lure chloride of ot radium This M J curio curlo declares Is IR the only sample ample of It in u a pure state that exists In the whole It U la Is About the sIzo lZ of a buckshot and auth less than of a it M At Curie Curle told nn nil Interviewer that It had haul any value lIlue that one wishes tu to Rive give it II but that would not buy bu It ft H IL was sas lS with am ample thi that thet t radium proved itself to be a II anew new hOW clement for tor It showed allowed no lines In inthe the he spectroscope other than those char of oC the Ih metal Many London men orS ore anxious l to 10 try the ef of effects feels of ot radium radiations on patho I microorganIsms The rue present market price however howver ot of fairly pure lUt radium IH is 1400 n a 1 pound during durin the past three years yearn only between and anil GOO COO grammes of the new element have hlll been Ga Go Gazette GaSe zette zelte Se t to I