Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1907 — Transmutation Now a Fact. [ARTICLE]

Transmutation Now a Fact.

Prof. Otto N. Witt of the Technical high school at Charlottenburg, Germany, an authority Bn radium experiments, now asserts that the latest experiments of Prof. Ramsay show that the influence of the energy contained in radium emanations well-known elements like copper can now be converted into others just $s well known. This proves that the ancient alchemists were on the right track. Four years ago'Ramsay discovered that radium emanations changed to helium and later that this is the source of all the inactive elements. Latterly Prof. Boltwood of Yale has shown that a new element exists in the uranium minerals, where radium is found, and which is the parent of radium. This new element gives off both alpha and beta radiations, produces no emanations and resembles theorium. lonium is the name proposed for this substance. ■ "TVI ■ II 11-HI- I »■ A commission agent in the Paris fruit markets recently shipped a basket containing 63 selected peaches to London. The price for the lot was 9510, or about $9 each. ’>