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Show START RADIUM BANKl Lojcfon Institution Will Rent Pre-ions Pre-ions Element to Scici.tists. Prsiatsrs Esperlsnce Trouble In Ob telnlng Sufficient Quantity of Curative Vlsld Small. bndnn. A res.onse far lieyond tlw rNfetiitiiiiin even ol the promoters of tliiichctne hua at'ended llio liislllii. tl.i in luidnn of a radliiui hank, a' pi as where that ultrn pre ions elo-met elo-met tuny bo stored In security and blnl out to medlcul men, sctentlnls aisolhers wbn wisb to use tt but ran no afford tho Inn a nillHiiram which , present mnrket price. Tbe actunl locale of the bank Is UP ttojaieijr to be In the nclghtiorhood of t'tvini.llsb square tn the heart of "clocterlnnd" but fer Iho present temporary tem-porary offices have been opened In j Monrgntt street Here a reporter found hlniaolf ono of a host of anxloua Inquirers aftor the modern phlloao-: phlloao-: poor's Hone. I "We navo boon perfectly amazed." rld the manager, "nt tho stir that iht announcement has already caused, nlllioiigh It was only a day ago I hive been besieged by applicants. I principally, of cuius, hy meilU-al men lor whoso usp thn bank Is being chief I ly organized. i "Aa you know, tho rnnruinua ex-I ex-I peine ol radium Is und will be for some time llio grout drawback In Its use. bntb for iiic.ll.nl anil sclcnilllc put poses. For an average operation some tllty milligrams are needed, I costing about tl.unu, nn.l tt la I hern-I hern-I lore only a, one or two of tho large ln ilon hci-pltaln that It can be used I U any extent. "Ho a little body of men have do I rlaed to estnlillsli this hank, from I which wr shall 'let out' radium t lu i lor one day's use of loo uillllgruaia. und fur each eiihscniicnt day t half per cent on the value of llio amount used, hecurltles will, nf course, bnve tn be giver, nnd It Is happily one of the churai terlsllcs of radliiin Hint Its faculties are lo all Intents nnd purposes pur-poses inexhaustible "Apart from getting Iho re.inlreil radium." continued the tnanager, "the whole th ug In supremely nlmple There la no need nt npncloua strong rnoms. Half a million worth tnkes up no more space than a duchess tlnrn. and we shall only stock It to the value of ILV.O. noil "Hut tho getting It Is (he difficulty. Hitherto the main source has boon the pitchblende from the Joachln Thai mine, tn llnhenila. This yields one part tn l.ooo non. Hin 1s prwritmiiy ' monopolised by Austria. Tbe dis covery ol radioactive niitunlie. now being worked by un I'nyllsh company. In (tie bed of a stream near C.nurda. In Portugal where 'nilniciiloua curoa1 used to happen, not unconnected wlib l lie nullum-hue added to tlio supply, but not to a very cheapening extent. "Ho far nn Ktigtatul Itself Is concerned, con-cerned, there are two Cornish mines that havu yielded a Utile, but the nvnlliililu supply of pure milium Is Intensely In-tensely limited, owing to the enormous enor-mous dlllli'ully of extraction. Al-tlinugn Al-tlinugn milium exists In air, sea water, and ulmont everywhere, there ts hard- r ly a pure ounco In Iho world. I'n- duubtodly nn of the first things that we shall have to do Is to set about finding new sources of supply. "As to our bunk. It will be organized organ-ized very much after the model of the. similar Institution lu Paris, through which most of the radium used Id Kngliind has hitherto come, and of other nullum bunks which are being 1 insslMfS tw Vstk, Uortlu- a&4 kXSmI Vienna. |