SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT
NEW RADIO-ACTIVE ELEMENT.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Received 16, 11.55 p.m. Paris, February 16. The Academy of Sciences learns that Madame Curie, in co-operation with Monsieur Debierne, has isolated a small quantity of polonium, which far exceeds radium's radio-active power. It is five thousand-fold rarer, and* rapidly disintegrates. It is stated that one cf the products of its disintegration is helium, and it may possibly lead to the identity of the latter being shortly established. Science will then possess experimental proof of the transformation of a body hitherto believed to be elementary.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 317, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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