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...years ago Dr. Alois Fischer, Viennese chemist, made an alloy of radium and platinum. He sent it to Madame Marie Curie at Paris. She gave it to the Curie Radium Institute for experiment...
Last week the Institute announced that the alloy had proved itself ten times more radioactive than pure radium, that it is unusually efficacious against cancer...
...Hamburg, where the German Congress of Natural Science was meeting last week, the men there cheered mightily when they heard reports on the Fischer radium-platinum alloy...
...Amalgam-an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals. Mercury is the only metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures and its alloys are pliable substances ranging from liquid to solid according to the amount of mercury used. They are mechanically convenient for use in dentistry...
Frederic Winthrop Allen, chairman of the Vanadium Corporation of America (vanadium & alloy for use in the manufacture of steel tools and cutlery) reported a net income of $1,849,240 (previous year: $1,980,031); revealed that the corporation "has already developed over 100 chemical compounds and stands prepared to furnish these compounds to the trade...