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Is not the generation of radiant energy by radium analogous to the humming of telegraph wires and poles? In each case the emission of energy is a response to surrounding disturbances which elicit no response from bodies in general. The disturbances from which the energy is drawn are irregular movements, of the air in the one case, and of the ether in the other. The responsive power is due to structure, which in the one case is on the large, and in the other on the molecular scale.
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EVERETT, J. Analogue to the Action of Radium. Nature 67, 535–536 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067535c0
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