Show he NEW METALS MYSTERY 7 bir oliver lodge does not believe there is more than an ounce of radium in all the the world yet that ounce has set all the leading scientists inquiring and speculating for the discovery of its properties and the nature and origin of its powers means the slow deciphering of another line in the book of nature was discovered by two french 1 I and fmc curie a few year sago it is the rarest heaviest and the of all the metals i newfound new found clement in nature it is cs fionn pitchblende a black mineral fc hading to brown or green which is in minute quantities in many parts of the world but chiefly in ft particular mine in cornwall there are about fifteen grains of rau aum ium in a ton of pitchblende mid tho process of exaction is deiy laborious and cosily it is computed that n pound avoirdupois of radium would cost COO pounds hut that means nothing i theran Ther cn not a pound of extrac tedra diun n the world and such as theres ij not for sale sir william crookes acquired a wf lieth of a gramme of radium and with this tiny specimen to work on he ir rc across the threshold of another of natures secret compartments he found ins piece of to be radioactive ill an extraordinary degree evi ev I grything ry thing he used in handling it glasses tubes his own fingers became lundin cogent in the dark even after careful cashing he placed his particle of indium noar ft scilen covered with sulphide of which immediately ayi Li iljin of light us sy were falling into a y baca alad hn saw that the radium was casting out clec tron ur ion s ahu li bombarded julic plate enduring and visible mints of light an electron is nn incredibly small affair the scientists that lovo to n say hat it beats the relation towards a molecule as a billiard ball does to st igini Ii ini radium sends out heat anil it sends out particles of itself it lias been doing this from the moment it became radium and for aught anybody knows it may continue to do it to the iced 0 time stadium melts more than its own of ice within an hour enalo o s fragment of it in altube put the tube ag your wite oat pocket and an conr later you will be suffering an open fore H blisters and burns the skin SL curie says that a pound of it in a room would probably kill k ill everybody present by the blasting force of its jays and this power of radiation seems inexhaustible although the heat and the bombardment never chac ane scientists tista say theair of is so small that a piece of radium would loe only ce grain from each square inch of its surface ip ten thousand million years when met with a racing of the eye row licy explain tho mystery by tn analogy of a perfume A perfume is constantly losing it with its scent the things in contact with band the air around and yet although nt 1 l activity is constant ami the per suffer an incessant aaion in weight the loss is so slight that it cannot be detected after many years by the most sensitive and delicate of scales where does the energy come from I 1 how doca radium obtain itt this is the problem fo alic arc demoting their attention and nobody can say how far their will lead them they may discover an cu new light on that mighty mys acry gitlic primary of energy abul div methods ly which it is transi froia one to naother AX iyE irenios THEORY dr has bui ingenious theory extracts its power filin theair tn eair hut radium is aldaya about i warmer than the atmosphere mo sphere and the second law of thermo says that energy cannot be conveyed between of the panr temperature by the transference of libat from one to the other nor can libat be aiom a cold body to one hat ass warmer How then does rold air transfer client to warm radium nature sw i bower of making available kllc cn erKy abic is up in pases aid in virtue of there ibid alic activities ot their o al cach in tit ailt v liwe the molecules i a gaii or of a liquid about mth different ip mid hey aho differ in tl activity of alie events eliat arc all tine time goin on ushii traveling molecules nv deoine of the impinge upon anny d ait the paa or saiyid whai thoc eliat are t or those of ali ich the eventa are mol mo l vigorous cin effect upon that body ahk li the more cannot produce in all cairs enespy is fians ferrad irow the adjoining air or liquid to anc boda iii it and the air or liquid becomes cooler v an bo obtained froin source only at a moderate rate this y became the air or liquid from which the enespy is derived becomes cooler in the act of yielding it up its warmth hd to to it by the ordinary prace i or connection anacon Ae cordingly lie rate at which its warmth can be by these processes limits the rate at which il can achi st diminution in up to thi body Sm in it this is a very fact ir relation to the rate at events dc ii organic life r ITS USE and what ia the rood of radium no v that it ii found to what commercial or medical purpose can it be applied wilf it international cation wall it kielp scientific buffery suf fery like alie raya H a new energy which will run pur steamships and factories will it applied as a fuel relieve us from acx leavas io our dwindling wealth or con lf l f to these questions came ailt in a torrent dr stoney replied with ic proof my dear mr u that is entirely entire lv beside alic kiark the value of the dinnery is that it increases of na buc all ale you rin not iipp rare a dimmery accordine to possibilities of it liess as aji plied to the needs of man marcoff Mar conF eathon Ec thon all alic inventors arc inen trying to inake money and they often do it by applying the ivsich law wen axy men who devote elwir liva to th y rays hnat been of uso to but who could hav fore wen that when they were first diacon frfd S 2 1 I shall not attempt to bay whether radium will ever be applied 0 o hlll yf maii it is enough that alie with the wide field of iwach t pani lias corrica oa a step further towards tho of the profound secret a of nature |