Manti Messenger | 1905-07-20 | Page 3 | Velocity of Radium

velocity of radium that latest wonder of science rail rall um Is now belle believed cd in some quarters to bo be the substance of which the sun still Is ili composed I 1 ight tra travel cis at the rate of rolles miles a second consider ing that the brain can call scarcely grasp the speed of it a bullet a mere yard yards a second it ie Is seen how far bodoni I 1 humar la is euch such a speed as this nor la Is it any easier to grapple with the peed speed of the emanations of radium rome of which illich fly off at a velocity of rolles a i second and will mill penetrate steel and various other sub aub lo dances as casily as smoke will page through muslin bo po powerful erful are these raa ra that it would mould be as dan tn in approach radium in n any an quantity as ag it Is to RO go near gunpowder with mith a lighted match A man enter ing in a chamber containing a pound ot of radium jin would have ills hi eyesight des de trofi his life shin burned and would probably lose his life