A “Radium Palace.”

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 19, 6 November 1912, Page 70

A “Radium Palace.”

The Radium “Palace’’ wtiieh is to bn built in Paris for the use of Madame C urie and the Pasteur Institute will, it is said, cost £l6,O(K>. Probably all the radium it w ill contain when finished could be accommodated in a thimble, though necessitating an expenditure greater than the cost of the “palace." The elaborate precautions against burglary which are to lie taken scarcely seem necessary: no burglar would waste his time stealing a few grains of dirty-looking salt which could be disposed of in no channel he could use. But the leaden walls of the safe in which the radium is to l>e kept are all essential, for lead •offers the most effective resistance to the passage of the potent rays which, night and day, radium shoots out in every direction. And. euri ously enough, lead appears to be the final product resulting from the successive transformations the wonder - element undergoes.