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FULLER consideration of the experimental evidence on the effects of concentration on the activity of radium convinces me that, on the whole, this is certainly against the a priori probable assumption that a large part of the activity is not spontaneous. I refer more especially to Prof. Rutherford's experiment on dilution, as touched on in my letter in NATURE of October 25. Other considerations lead to the same view.
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JOLY, J. Radium and Geology. Nature 75, 7 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/075007a0
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