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Show Radium Business Disturbed. The European war has for the present, pres-ent, at least, totally closed the European Euro-pean market to American radium ores. As is well known, the uranium ores of Colorado and Utah are sold exclusively exclu-sively for their radium content, so little lit-tle use being known for the uranium .hat the ores cannot be sold for their content of that element. The closure of the European market leaves but one known buyer, so that while the war lasts and probably for some time afterward after-ward the market will be restricted and without the benefit of competition. Had the bills introduced in congress been passed, the United States government govern-ment would probably also have been In the market as a buyer, and the miner might have- had at least the choice between two purchasers. j Science. |