NATURE’S SECRETS
PROFESSORS’ KNOWLEDGE OF HELIUM. By Cable—Preu Aasoclotlon—Cep/rlrM. Australian and N.Z. Cable AbkoclaMob. (Received October 8, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, October 7. Two professors have succeeded in extracting helium from hydrogen, the process requiring the smallest quantity of gas to effect the conversion. They also claim to have established that there are 500-bil-lionths of radium per gramme Helium. On this deduction, the age of a meteorite is computed at 600 million years. Sufficient data has been ascertained to enable an accurate computation of the age of geological strata.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 9 October 1926, Page 9
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88NATURE’S SECRETS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 9 October 1926, Page 9
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