The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-21
WHAT Is RADIO ACTIVITY?
A Technical Discussion Of the Poqvers
of Rldum BY Dr.. ]. C. SulliOan.

] lombard each other with the vclocit
. Of l,5l2 feet per second. That the5
! molecules are carbon Is evidenced II
J the fact that Prof Higgins found thu
! brightness of the sun was due to car
! bon particles in its atmosphere from
DR.. Hunts research as to whether tht
source Of the renewal OF the perren
|, NAL supply OF carbon of our atmos
phere must not be sought external tc
our planet and from the fact that the
lines Of the carbon bands In the spec
trum never shift even under pressure
although all others do and almost al
ways toward the red.
| These rays are those Of force and
not attraction, hence all things in our
solar system are driven to common
center and not attracted by the myth,
ical law OF gravitation These lines
of force are driven 10 all matter, some
are absorbed, stored and conserved as
future energy, others pass directly
/ through, which lines are the quintes-
sence Of radio activity and are the
| property of every molacule Of matter,
some TO greater and more to a les
ser degree, according to the chrystal.
ization or porosity of their masses of
matter, Others are reflected, others
refractel which become rides cent and
when polarized produce fiouresence.
The earth Is magnet and the prop
critics OF magnetism may be impaired
for a time to substances by rubbing
them together or against magnet,
thus producing heat and changing the
course Of the refractad rays, just as
radio-activity of radihm does to water
or other substances by imparting it's
electro magnet lines to them We
know that palladium will occlude /
LOCO times lis volume of hydrogen /
which can easily be recovered BY gent. I
ly heating tic palladium, when we find
the hydrogen So ocemled has acquired
lar more active properties than the
ordinary hydrogen. for it often com
Dimes with the hydrogen Of the air
ind will unite with chlorine and iodine
n the dark. as it Is the bromide and
chloride of the little brown powder
'adium that demonstrates radio-activ-
ty and fiuorescence. The question
hen arises, what function has the hal,
III salts in fu0rescence or phospher-
We know that the SUMS rays are
he source of all energy That each {
eam is composed Of luminous. Their /
nal and actinic ray that the prism
ispersea these INTO ITS spectrum with
he actinic ray above the violet and
he caloric ray beneath the red, That
very band, from and including the
aloric ray, to the green are positive
nj from the green upwards and in
luding the actinic ray are negative !
nd that about the middle of the III
"a violet ray region We find the car l
on spectrum and all its region Is &C
mic while no part Of the ultra red is.
No matter what particular property ,
! a greater degree one form Of cleo
-icity may have from another they
re all ineInlcal. each having all the
fUpHIhtEa VI INT DtU6Is anu hlI it-
ersable that is, every kind of ac- !
on that can produce electricity, cleo
'icity can itself produce.
Mechanical power turned into
ynamo produces an electrical cur
emit, while this electrical current !
iTnei into a dynamo will make the :.
ynamo moter Its effect On the
Ddy T. mechanical chemical and pays
illogical II effects decomposition. re-
imposition ondosmosis and exosmos-
;. thus destroying tumors and alb =
ormal grcwths, giyings trength AMI =
igor to the shattered nerve. The body !,
self being an organization of cleo 7
20 magnetic elements its activities =
lust be in consonance with electric !,
Avs :,
Hence. neither r1dium nor any other n
jrm of radio-activity can produce any y
lerapeutical results that cannot he !
duplicated by the true and tried X y
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