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IN a letter under the above title in NATURE of May 5, Mr. Whetham brings forward some results dealing with the hypothesis that radium is being produced from uranium. May I be permitted to state that I have been engaged during the last twelve months in an experimental examination of this hypothesis? In the paper in which the suggestion was made that radium may be being formed by the disintegration of a parent element possessing heavier atomic weight (Rutherford and Soddy, Phil. Mag., May, 1903, p. 587), this sentence occurs:ββThe point is under experimental investigation by one of us, and a fuller discussion is reserved until later.β Mr. Whetham's letter makes it desirable that the results that have been obtained during the past year should be published.
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SODDY, F. The Life-history of Radium. Nature 70, 30 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070030a0
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