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Paris newshawks learned that the bodies of Pierre Curie (d. 1906) and his wife Marie Sklodowska Curie (d. 1934)) co-discoverers of radium, will soon be removed from their crypt outside Paris, placed in the Pantheon...
...determined, and hence the age of radioactive rock can be told by the amount of decay observed. In Canada there are rocks that reveal an age of 1,230,000,000 years. Yet Earth could not be more than two or three times that old, because otherwise all the radium would have decayed to lead. Thus the time at which Earth and the other planets were thrown off the sun, probably by the gravitational yank of a passing star, is commonly estimated at 2,000,000,000 years ago. Much of this time was spent cooling, shrinking, solidifying: more than...
...Joliots proposed for elements made artificially radioactive such names as radio-nitrogen, radio-aluminum, radio-silicon. They foresaw the use in cancer therapy of packets of artificial radio-elements, which, because they disintegrate as the radiation dwindles, would not have to be withdrawn from the body after treatment as radium seeds must be. They told of experiments presaging the production of a radio-phosphorus which would emit neutrons (emitted by no natural radioactive substance). And they spoke of work indicating the existence of the neutrino, an ultimate particle lacking electrical charge like the neutron, but small in mass like...
Belief No. 1: the blood of elderly people, who are prone to develop cancer, is more alkaline than the blood of cancer-resisting youth. Belief No. 2: as a cancer fades under ministrations of radium or x-rays, the elderly patient's blood decreases in alkalinity, gains in acidity. Many a researcher has, without any definite success, attempted to attack cancer by injecting acids into the blood to reduce its alkalinity. Dr. von Bremer claimed complete success for this method as a means of killing off his "cancer germs...
...Cures" have been just as multitudinous: caustics, serums, chemicals, hormones. But the fact remains that only by surgery, radium or x-ray does any reputable physician today treat cancer with any hope of success...