MAKING OF GOLD
A PROFESSOR'S OPINION. Press Association—By Electric ) : • Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this-Miv nt 9.25 a.m.) . . LONDON, .Sept. 6. Commenting oiT a statement that two Now Zealanders had succeeded in transmuting nfetals into gold. Professor Low stated it had long been thought that this might be possible hv atomic bombardment, by which they -could add or subtract particles from actual particles composing -matter, so that similar- elements might be converted. He believed ■ that success in spectroscopic quantities had already been attained in Russia, but the cost, of the process probably exceeded the value of the product procured. This was the case when diamonds of . microscopic size had been manufactured. He did not doubt that some - method would be discovered in tho future, (but he did not believe that the quantity produced would be appreciable, for centuries to come.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1929, Page 5
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