TREMENDOUS VELOCITY
MOST POWERFUL PROJECTILE. How the discovery of radium, and other similar elements that spontaneously radiate rays and particles of matter, has placed in the hands of physicists a powerful weapon by which the true structure of the ultimate atom has been discovered, formed the subject of a lecture by Sir Ernest Rutherford, given at the Royal Institution. Sir Ernest said this weapon is what has been named the alpha particle, which radium shoots out millions of times every second at a speed of 10,000 miles a second. Such tremendous velocity makes the alpha particle the most powerful projectile known to science; compared with it the swiftest rifle bullet is the veriest sluggard.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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114TREMENDOUS VELOCITY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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