THE MYSTERIOUS METAL.
If it be true that the deep spring which has been found by borings at Runcorn (England) far below the Mersey is impregnated with radium, to any exceptional degree the discovery may bo of the greatest importance (says the London Referee). Radium is the most active clement known to us. Neither of its curative nor of its destructive powers have the limits yet been found. Wo only know that it will sometimes euro and sometimes cause the most terrible of all diseases; that if we could harness the energy of loz of the pure metal it would suffice to drive tha Mauretania two or three times round the world; but that for any human being to enter the room in which that ounce was kept would be certain death. Wo know also that it has the strange property of endowing other things, particularly water, with its own astonishing nature.
Fitted with sleeping accommodation for four people, a new luxury aeroplane has been built for a Belgian millionaire. There is also a toilet room complete with washbasins and mirrors.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20287, 21 December 1927, Page 12
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181THE MYSTERIOUS METAL. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20287, 21 December 1927, Page 12
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