Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-08-03 | Page 4 | The Last Frontier

i 4 THE LAST FRONTIER r t I SCORES ONLY TWO HITS OUT or OP 1000 flOO SHOTS Ill Ill- B DAVID nII n. II X l Sen Service ice Writer I Ilma a speed of miles milesa a t I second That Just times I faster than the fastest rifle bullet flics lies flies i The speed his has ha been bc en attained d however i j It Is the speed sped with which the I tiny tiny particles known n as alpha par par- particles parI I leave IE so Sir Ernest I i nd's greatest physicist says Rutherford has been using u these I speed high particles from radium to bombard otho other substances As s a result he has been able to knock electrons cut of the nuclei I n k j PL C CSIR SIR SIn ERNEST of ot the atoms jf If the substances thus changing thorn them t em from one sub- sub into another r. r Rutherford has been able in this way to disintegrate the atoms of ot boron fluorine sodium aluminum and nd phosphorous The Tho disintegration no so far how- how ever er Is only a laboratory phenomenon non The amount of or disintegration Is exceedingly minute This Is because both beth tho the atoms of or orthe the substances being bombarded and tho the alpha particles s which do dothe dothe dothe the bombarding are aro so small that no no microscope could ever reveal their size A marksman would despair If It ho he had to use uso alpha particles for tor bul bul- lets For I or Rutherford's record so 90 tar fir Is about two hits for tor every eve mil mil- million lion particles used Both Doth beet and ond cane cane sugar augar may find lInd a n. rival rl sugar crowding them for a place on tho the market soon lIoon The new sugar might be bo called I artichoke sugar because It is man man- manufactured manufactured manufactured most easily i from tho artichoke I The scientist calls beet bc et and cano cane sugar rugar sucrose Tho The scientific name of ot tho the new now sugar Is la or fructose because It occurs naturally In Infruits fruits Two research workers at the U U. S. S bureau of ot standards Drs Silsbee c and Proffitt have ha worked worl out a process by b which fructose can ron bo be prepared on a commercial stage atago from front the tho artichoke