RADIUM RESEARCH.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12721, 17 February 1910, Page 3

RADIUM RESEARCH.

IMPORTANT WORK OF MADAME CORIE. poloniumTsolated. ( I'AfiSS ABBOOIATION — COPYRIGHT.] (Received Feb i 6, 11.55 p.m.) Paris, Feb 16. The. Academy of Science learns that Aladame Curie, in co-operation with "M. de. Bierno, has iso'ated a small quantity of polonium, which far exceeds radium in radioactive power. It „is five thousand fold rarer, and rapidly disintegrates. It is stated that the product of its disintegration is helium, and it will possibly lead to tho •identity of the. latter being shortly established, and science will then possess experimental proof of the* transformation of a body hitherto believed •to be elementary.