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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 6 December 1915, Page 3

A SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. A contributor to the Domenca del Corriere writes:—"ln Central Russian Asia, and precisely In the territory of Ferghana, a local explorer has discovered a new metal more marvellous and more mysterious than radium. The scientist in question, while handling minerals, put his hand by chance on a soft body, of a considerable weight, of opaque colour. This, being absolutely unknown, readily absorbed his attention. The new metal was carried to the Moscow chemical laboratory, and subjected to minutely careful experiments, which afforded surprising results. In the presence' of an acid it developed so intense a cold as immediately to reduce to powder, without gas emanations and without explosions, the receivers of glass, iron, and particularly thick granite into which it was successively introduced. Treated with an alkaline matter, the substance, which has not a name yet, and which remained refractory to all the analytical processes, lost one-fifth of its weight. A sufficiency of it has now been collected for the purpose of systematic observatiois, which will reveal, it is hoped, the true importance of the discovery, which the Russian scientists incline to regard as superior to that of radium itself. Meanwhile, the most surprising fact is the loss of weight undergone by all objects placed in contact with the new metal."

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