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IN a letter to NATURE (June 6) I gave the experimental evidence which led me to conclude that in ordinary actinium preparations a new substance was present which was slowly transformed into radium. By a chemical method this substance was separated from actinium, and a solution of the latter was obtained which showed no appreciable growth of radium over a period of eighty days. Observations on this solution have been continued over a total period of 240 days, and there is still no detectable increase in the quantity of radium. The growth of radium, if it occurs at all, is certainly less than 1/500 of that observed in other experiments.
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01 November 1907
In Prof. Rutherford's letter in NATURE of last week (October 31, p. 661, col. 2, line 23), for “picradium” read “preradium.”
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RUTHERFORD, E. Origin of Radium. Nature 76, 661 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076661b0
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