LABORATORY GOLD.
* CLAIM FROM JAPAN.
TRANSMUTATION OF MERCURY.
*8? CABLE— PRESS AS3OCUTION—COPXKIOHT) •AUSTRALIAS Asft> N.Z. CABU! ASSOCIATION.)
TOKYO, September 21
Excitement hag been eausec? by tho claim of Dr. Hantaroof, of tho Government chemical experiment station, that ho has discovorod a method of transmuting inorcury into gold choaply, uaing 170 volts to break up the mercury atom.
Ho states that he lias thrice succeeded in his experiments, and promises to reveal tho secret to the world in November.
"The discovery," he says, "vcili have tho greatest effects on present-day chemistry arid jmyßics.''
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18185, 23 September 1924, Page 9
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