Show value of rad um the value of a speck of radium Is lucre bibly gf eat and when the aon sidney holland at sir treves lefure at the london hospi tal recently 1 eked up tha be con taming the famous surgeons worth of radium bromide sir frederick s concern for its safety may not have been altogether as fumed while the late prof curie was on the wonderful ele ment one day in pans he dropped the glass tube containing a few grains of radium with which be was demon and the glass breaking the precious powder was scattered all over the floor at once the room was cleared every speck of dust collected ath the greatest care taken to the professor s laboratory dissolved re crystallized and the radium extracted from the refuse again with the loss of only an infinitesimal fraction the cost of radium bromide is about 67 a milligramme milli gramme which would mean over for 9 ounce pois |