Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-15 | Page 8 | Radium in Air to be Measured

RADIUM IN AIR I TO BE MEASURED CHICAGO July 16 A A new type of which may be to 0 tho t alum in the theair Ir h A been perfected bv hv Plot pi of I 1 G In th If ph 10 of ot Ih Unit ot It Chi Chi- ChiI Chi I cago eago say says an announcement by bytho bytho tho university officials The Instrument is so It will III det detect ct the power to conduct or IonIzatIon ot tho air Imparted from a 11 single atom ol ot bellum and at tho time it v works with such speed asto to attain its ts reading IP Ir less than thana 11 second Tho Uy of ot Ilia tho scope may bo used to ad In measuring radium l ot the small Email amount of radium in tho ail there thero being accordine to I Pro Professor ro- ro fessor Swann only 50 grams or a little more than ounces ce of ra radium over tho entire surface ot the earth nn