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A STATEMENT reported as having been made by Sir William Ramsay; that radium breaks down into helium has been received with a chorus of wonder as something absolutely new. May I point out that in NATURE, October 10, 1889, p. 584, you have something very similar, in an account of some observations on gases in sealed tubes; communicated by the late Prof. Piazzi-Smyth to the British Association in 1889.
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WOOLHOUSE, S. Degradation of Elements. Nature 69, 512 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069512a0
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