A GIFT OF RADIUM.
£.470,000 PER OUNCE.
The London Daily Mail of December 10th, which has just reached Masterton, contains the following:— Mr Alton, director of the English Radium Institute, has concluded the purchase of one gramme of radium, from, the Mines Department of the< Austrian Ministry of Public Works. The price is £15,000, and the funds for the purchase are being provided, by Sir Ernest Cassel, -whowill place this large quantity of the metal at the disposal of the English Institute for medical purposes. ?'.'.'.
One gramme is equal to .564 of a dram avoirdupois. Sixteen drams go to the ounce, and the price of the radium per ounce may-be roughly estimated at £470,000.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10158, 7 February 1911, Page 5
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114A GIFT OF RADIUM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10158, 7 February 1911, Page 5
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