A TRACE OF RADIUM.
WATER FROM WHITE ISLAND LAKE. (By ToleKraDli,—Press Association.) . .■■■• Auckland, February 11. . Mr. Gray, ownor. of White Island, has received 'news from . Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, s that a trace of radium 'has been ' found in, a small . Bample ■ of water taken from the lake on the island. A largo, quantity is asked for to enable a frirtner test to :be made at the earliest opportunity.; This discovery confirms another .analysis. "
' STATEMENT BY THE OWNER. Mr. Andrew, Gray, of Wellington, the owner.of White Island, telegraphs: -"I have had no direct communication witli, the Cavendish Laboratory, but ' have a' letter from -Mr.. Galbraith, late of Auckland, stating that a 'samplfe of White Island Lake water, obtained by the courtesy of ,Mr. Alexander, 1 solicitor, of Auckland, While' yachting, was' examined at Cambridge by the' Hon. Mr. Strutt, to whom Mr. Galbraith was introduced by' Sir William Ramsay, and that it showed a slight trace in solids of:radium. Mr. Galbraith suggested evaporating' a ton, but this -was impracticable. This was in 1907,' when radium was less valuable.' I wired . a friend to try to get a jar during on excursion from Opotiki to tho island, to-day. I presume this got about ami inspired the I'ress-Association telepam.iri to-nighfs paper—Andrew Gray.' - .-
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 740, 12 February 1910, Page 5
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