Word: radiumator
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...Memorial's stained glass chapel windows. Mrs. Cullum's cousin and co-founder Mrs. John Jacob Astor also died of cancer shortly after her husband gave Memorial $225,000. The late President James Douglas of Phelps Dodge Corp. gave altogether $600,000 and 3½ gms. of radium. Edward Stephen Harkness gave $250,000 to buy 4 gms. more. Memorial today has 81 gms., largest supply in the U. S. General Electric has loaned a 700,000-volt x-ray machine whose radiations approximate radium's. The hospital has two 200,000-volt x-ray machines...
Birthdays. Adolph Lewisohn, philanthropist, 85; Queen Mary of England, 67; Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, 50; James Joseph ("Gene'') Tunney, 36. Died. Henry T. Koenig, 42, radium authority, developer of a reduction system which greatly cut radium costs; of cancer of the hip; in Denver. He was the last to die (from radioactivity) of 21 onetime assistants to Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie...
...Prague, Czechoslovakia, deformed Chemist Josef Kopriva was snubbed by cold-hearted Typist Marie Stanovich. Sly Josef Kopriva coated numeral key 7 of Marie Stanovich's typewriter with slow-poisoning radium, watched day by day as pains grew worse in her hands and wrists, tits of blindness seized her. finally confessed he had tried to kill...
...Henry Askew Barton of the American Institute of Physics pointed out the possibilities for cancer therapy. Instead of inserting costly radium capsules into malignant tumors, doctors may soon use substances made radioactive artificially...
...probably what happens: The attacking alpha particle joins a boron atom to form a neutron (which flies off) and an unstable nitrogen atom which in a few seconds or minutes changes to a carbon atom with the release of a positron. Hence, just as the spontaneous radioactivity of radium turns it finally into lead, the end-product of boron's artificial radioactivity is carbon. Not only boron but magnesium and aluminum became radioactive under similar treatment...