CHEMICAL RESEARCH
A REMARKABLE PAPER. THE TRANSMUTATION OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS. (Received Febjruary 9, 6.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 9. A remarkable paper has been read before the Chemical Society. The paper stated that Sir William Ramsay, who resigned the Chair of Chemistry at London University in 1912, and Professor Collie H. Paterson, of Leeds University, have succeeded in obtaining neon and helium by means of an electric discharge into a vacuum tube containing hydrogen, thus establishing the possibility either of the transmutation of chemical elements, or of the transformation of energy into matter. Sir William Ramsay has distinguished himself by researches into the constituents of the air; in conjunction with Lord Rayleigh he discovered argon. Besides discovering helium, he has also detected in the air the unknown elements to which he has given the Greek names of neon, krypton and xenon.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 8
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140CHEMICAL RESEARCH New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 8
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