Abstract
I THINK it was generally believed that Prof. Piazzi-Smyth's results were due to the iodine being absorbed by, and the hydrogen being evolved from, the electrodes. There are many other recorded transformations, among them Dr. Samuel Brown's conversion of carbon into boron (or vice versâ, I forget which). The difference between the more recent work and the earlier consists in the fact that the transformation of radium emanation into helium is accompanied by a great energy change, while we do not know that the former supposed transformations are.
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RAMSAY, W. Degradation of Elements. Nature 69, 512 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069512b0
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