THE USES OF RADIUM.
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A second lecture on "The Laasoua of Baited" "Brili be given by Professor O. Oweft, oi tba Auckland University Col ; lege, at a meeting of tehe Auckland Institute, to be hold in St. Andrew's Hall os Monday ewrjig. Tfce lecturer mil give an explanation of radioactivity in terras. Of the diisntegra&ion theory of Rutherford and Soddv. yThe consequences of this theory will he dealt with, and the quesfci&t•■>■ as to She possibility of transmutation of one element' ■ into a different element will be discussed,. Other matters that will be deal, with { !l bo the o«o of radium fa the treatmeet, of disease, the dlstrihafcion of, radium throughocfe the earth's cmi, and it» effoci on our estimates of thesga of the earth and of the win. the question of tie supply of fuel whe» our seal beds. are exhausted will elso. he discussed,, i-adktm halting atv important bearing on - this point. The lecture, will be illustrated with numerous lantern slides and oxpenmeirts, arid will be open' to tie - public ..'....:. . . :
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17234, 9 August 1919, Page 10
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175THE USES OF RADIUM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17234, 9 August 1919, Page 10
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