“I GOT HAMLET ”
DR. SOOTT’S DISCOVERIES. AFTER YEARS OiF WORK. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 4. 6-5 p.m.) LONDON, February 3. The discovery of the new element by Professors Coster and G. Hevesy, of Copenhagen, is arousing world-wide interest. Dr. Alexander Scott, Director of Scientific Research at the British Museum, examined black sand from New Zealand, and isolated a cinnamon-col-oured powder which proved to be an element of atomic weight 72. As Dr. Scott says: “The'Danish scientists got the ghost, but I got Hamlet.” Dr. Scott hopes the' element may be useful for incandescent mantles _ and un meltable crucibles, as it is allied to titanium The element was isolated by treating sand with strong sulphuric acid, and boiling it for three weeks." after years of occasional work. Dr. Scott obtained 20 grains of what he thought was a new oxide. He pnt it aside until he heard of the. spectro9copio discovery of hafnium. He then isolated the new element.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11436, 5 February 1923, Page 5
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