SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
■ "i if REMARKABLE PAPERS. By Telegttpli.— Pt6t» Ateoclation.—Copfrtght LONDON, 7th February. Remarkable" papers have been read before the Chemical Society of London by Sir Wiiliam Ratosay, F.R.S,, Professor Norman M'Leod (London University), arid Professor H. Patersdrt (Leedd University), setting out experiments by which heon and helium were obtained by an electric discharge in a vacuum tube containing hydrogen, establishing either the transmutation of these elements or the transformation of their energy into mattef. tSir William Ramsay has made much refleafch into the constituents of the air, and in conjunction, with Lord Rayleigh he discovered argon. Besides discovering helium, he has also detected in the air the unknttWn elertlehte to which, he has given the Greek names of aeon, krypton, and xenon. Neon and helium are two gases previously found chiefly in the atmosphere and in the stars. They are chemically distinct. The suggestion of tfrsiieihtitatioh was first put forward by" Professor Rutherford, who submitted that radium was changing into helium. This i was subsequently verified by Ramsay.]' __ -^_ ——i-i-
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1913, Page 7
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170SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1913, Page 7
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