RADIUM’S POWER.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 322, 10 January 1907, Page 6

RADIUM’S POWER.

Radium, as explained by Professor Darwin, is a substance winch j. perhaps millions ol times morn powerful than dynamite. Thus it is estimated that, an ounce of radium would contain enough power to raise 10,000 tons a mile above the earth’s surface.

Another way ol stating the same estimate is this '. —The energy needed to tow a ship of 12,000 tons a distance of 0,000 sea miles at 15 knots is contained in 112 ounces of radium. Jhe Saxon probably burns 5 or 0 thousand tons ol coal on a voyage of, approximately the same length.