RADIUM DISCOVERY
WATER DIVINER SURPRISED ’ Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. VIENNA, January 19. (Received January 20, at 1.10 p.m.) A water diviner, using an old silver watch and chain as a pendulum, obtained such reactions at Menhaus, near Linz, that he guaranteed that water was available 9ft down. Borings did not yield water. The diviner was, so puzzled that he sent a sample of the earth to the Government Research Institute, which reported that it had the highest radium content hitherto found in Europe. Eleven thousand tons of earth would yield a kilogramme of pure radium.
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Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 9
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94RADIUM DISCOVERY Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 9
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