Word: radiumator
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...barley which Cesario Delgado foraged at Porterville was rat & squirrel bait. It had been poisoned with thallium chloride. Thallium is one of the rare metals. It stands in the periodic system of the elements between mercury and lead. Close neighbors are gold, platinum and bismuth. Nearby is radium. Thallium is deadly poison itself, poisons every compound it goes into. None of them can be discerned by taste, smell or feel...
...size and shape of an invisible barn might be determined by throwing a million baseballs at it and studying the number of balls which hit it and the angles at which they bounce off. That is the way physicists have determined the structure of the atom. Pellets have been radium particles, X-rays and, lately, cosmic rays. Inability to control available ammunition has been the great handicap...
...Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Crocker Institute of Cancer Research and editor of the Chemical Foundation's American Journal of Cancer* had the authority to state last week, though with scholarly ifs & ands, that treatment of cancers by x-rays or radium does not in itself stir up secondary cancers. That radiation cures a cancer in one part of the body only to metastasize or shift it into another part, has been a credible theory. Cancer of the skin often follows irradiation of the cervix. X-raying of bladder tumors is often followed by cancer...
...Radium ("element") is kept two ways: powdered, in tubes of platinum or gold, about an inch long, which are kept in thick lead boxes; or in a solution, in bottles encased in lead. Because radium is continually breaking down, its emanations must be pumped out of the bottles 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...
...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...