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...radioactive equivalent of one one-thousandth of a gram of radium...
Shrunken yardsticks are hard to measure, but the increase of mass which Einstein predicted in 1905 has been observed ac curately. Certain material particles shot out by radium move at 185,000 m p s, almost the speed of light. When they are weighed in flight (by a magnetic device), their mass is shown to have increased ac cording to his prediction...
...Uranium, a source of radioactive products, may now become more important in medical research than radium. With the increased use for uranium the roles will be reversed. Hence Canada will probably hike its price for uranium, lower it for the radium byproduct...
...conclusions, Eastman analyzed the strawboard. Chemists cut out bits of it which fogged X-ray film, and burned them. The ashes were strongly radioactive, shooting out beta rays (streams of electrons). They gave out no alpha rays (helium nuclei), thus proving that they were not the naturally radioactive elements: radium, uranium, or thorium. The only remaining possibility was that, the guilty particles came from the atomic bomb, were carried to the Middle West by the wind, and washed down by the rain. Six months after the explosion, they were still measurably active...
...from Atoms? Radioactive study is but one of 19 fields which the American Cancer Society is exploring. Down through the years, a defensive battle has been fought with weapons both good & bad: the knife, X ray, radium bullets, chemotherapy, heat, cold ("frozen sleep"), drugs, diet, prayer, many a quack salve and medicine. Treatment today, as it has been since the time Hippocrates used a soldering iron against tumors, is based largely on one principle: destruction or removal of diseased tissue. Not until last year was a major campaign against cancer instituted, with top scientists, doctors and businessmen united...