TRANSMUTING OF GOLD

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 7 September 1929, Page 5

TRANSMUTING OF GOLD

FROM BASE METALS A SCIENTIST’S COMMENT ON THE N.Z. DISCOVERY By Telegraph-Press Assn-Oopyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received Sept. 7, 9 a.m.) London, Sept., 6. Commenting on tho report ‘that two New Zealanders in Christchurch bad succeeded in transmuting base metals into gold, Professor Low stated that it had long been thought tlii'v might be possible by atomic hornha rdincut, by which they could add or isubslraet particles Irom actual partielcis composing matter, so that •similar, elements might be- converted. He believed that' success- in spectroscopic quantities bad already been attained in Russia, hut the cost of tho process probably exceeded tho value of the product thus secured. This was the case- when diamonds of • macroscopic size- had been manufactured. He- did not doubt, iliat Home method would bet discovered in tlie future, but did not believe that the qantity produced would be appreciable for centuries to come.