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IN a paper by Mr. E. F. Burton, recently published in the University of Toronto Studies, Physical Science Series, an account is given of some experiments with a highly radio-active gas obtained from crude petroleum. In this investigation it was found that air drawn through crude petroleum became charged with a radio-active emanation which, from the rate at which its activity decayed and from the nature of the induced radio-activity which it produced, the author concluded to be an emanation from radium.
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MCLENNAN, J. On the Radio-activity of Natural Gas. Nature 70, 151 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070151b0
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