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...halogen with fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine?alabamine, after the State whose Polytechnic Institute at Auburn he has headed for ten years. As scientific tender for this request, he last week reported that he had concentrated the relatively vast amount of 1/400,000th of a gram of alabamine in combination with lithium, light-weight brother of fugitive virginium. The pinch of new compound may well be termed a second cousin of common kitchen salt...
...every 24 hours. The gas thus pumped off is sealed in containers, used in radiotherapy for treatment of cancer. But Dr. Kaplan believes best results are obtained from pack treatment, that the best pack is made from radium element. The minimum quantity for a proper pack treatment is five grams ($350,000). Until last year there were only six grams in possession of the New York Department of Hospitals. By means he kept a deep, dark secret Dr. Kaplan persuaded Radium Beige to lend him five more grams. One gram arrived last year, the other four will come next month...
...life of radium is considered to be about 18,000 years. Authorities differ as to its rate of disintegration. If, as many believe, it loses half its potency in 6,000 years, at $70,000 per gram, the five grams Dr. Kaplan has borrowed will deteriorate less than $30 in value in a year...
Under six-month guarantees the faulty sternposts in four cruisers will be made good by the contractors. Cost: $20,000 each. The Navy borrowed half a gram of radium from Johns Hopkins University to discover the flaws. Capable of penetrating 16 in. armor plate, the radium's gammarays were used to photograph the rudder castings much as a dentist x-rays a tooth. Flaws or pockets in the steel showed as distinct blotches in the finished pictures...
...Anders Gram, Danish farmer, had seven children,, was about to have an eighth. The night he should have been home, business took him to the fair. The children were sent to their grandmother's nearby; all the dreadful night long till the end they were out of it, but some of them guessed what was happening, all of them felt it. Mother Anne was having a hard time, had known she was going to, but she would not let them send for the doctor because she had dreamed that would be fatal. Her only helpers were the servants...