FABRICATION OF GOLD.
EMINENT PROFESSOR ADMITS POSSIBILITY OF TRANSMUTATION.
tIOST MIGrHT be prohibitive
t (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Sun Cable. (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. Commenting on the statement that k two New Zealanders had succeeded in transmuting metals into gold, Professor D. Allan Low, the physicist, stated that it had long been thought that this migh£ be possible by means of atomic 'bombardment, by which they could add /or subtract particles from the actual ■particles composing matter, so that ■similar elements might be converted. He believed tha't success in spectroscopic quantities had already been attained in Russia, but the cost of the process probably exceeded the value •of the product procured. This was the >. case when diamonds of microscopic t size had been manufactured. He did 1 not 'doubt that some method would be discovered in the future, but did not believe that the quantity produced ‘ would be appreciable for centuries to come.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 September 1929, Page 5
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