A RADIO-ACTIVE ELEMENT.
POLONIUM ISOLATED. TWAT>ATVTTi CURIE'S RESEARCHES PARIS, February 16. The Academy of Sciences learns that Madame Curie, in co-operation with M. Debierne, has isolated a small quantity of polonium, which far exceeds radium's radio-active power. It is five thousand-fold rarer than radium, and rapidly disintegrates. It is stated the product of its disintegration is helium, and this will possibly lead to the identity of the Latter being shortly established, and science will then possess experimental proof of the transformation of a body hitherto believed to bo elementary.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 41, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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89A RADIO-ACTIVE ELEMENT. Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 41, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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