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DURING the past week accounts have appeared in the daily papers of a discovery emanating from, America of “a new rival to radium” called radio-thor; and as in name and in the circumstance that the body is spoken of as a cheap substitute for radium the body bears obvious resemblance to radio-thorium, well known as one of the most interesting and promising members of the radio-active hierarchy at the present time, it may be of interest to compare the two bodies.
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SODDY, F. Radio-Thorium . Nature 80, 12 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080012a0
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