Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — HOW TO GET GOLD FROM LEAD [ARTICLE]

HOW TO GET GOLD FROM LEAD

Oxford University Professor Gives Tip • on How to Take It from Mercury, Too. London. —The alchemists’ dream of producing gold from base metals Is not extravagant, asserted Prof. Frederick Soddy of the physical chemistry department at Oxford, in a recent publication. /V" He tells how to do it "To get gold from mercury,” he sayi “expel from the atom of mercury one beta-particle, wHeh will make thallium; then one alpha-particle, which will turn the thallium into gold. Or, to get gold from lead, exped from the atom of lead one alpha-particle, which wffl turn It into mercury, and proceed as before.”