The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-25
RADIUM PRODUCED
N PAYING QUANTITY
Sir William Ramsay Expects
to Turn Out a Grain
d Month.
USING A NEW PROCESS
The Greatest Supply of Raw
Material Comes From
Cornwall.

Boston. Dec. 2f.-Eadium is now
being produced I'm appreciable guam
..s. 'u the east end Of London.
rr.e announcement. which VIII
-..-.. rrr9idrrahic interest in the
...arHUe world. was made By Sir VIII
r.-r Ramsay. who had the satisfac-
..r .. showing to "a party at tho ra-
dunn factory established in Thomas
...r.. I.mcnouec. by the 81. Ives
-r-...Hafed mines. a sample OF the
--....le mineral which had been
~rra-arturcd on the spot.
Do ~.II be- remembered that 20 Ras
r. f.H rac0mmcudation Of sir William
r.m.... chat the factory was built. He
.rrar.rerfrd with some hiEh-grade
rfrrH'rrio concentrate obtained from
frr Trruwith mine. and reported that
rs r.I recovered from this ore a
rU-. Ir-ah'c portion OF radlum I'm an
srr-rE'maf-lv fair state"
-r Hr~ factory at Limeh0usc was
erected for The manufacture Of ra-
.a~ nr commercial basis. and no
fs.rma~f had been made as Co the re-
r''. Hf fHr enterprise until now. In
t4 tra present $500 milligrams OF 10
Dor cent raiium Cor $50 miIligrame
% pure radiuub have been produced
Arthur -~hif. n director % the com
rarr. Informed n reporter that they
proposed 90 put this amount upon the
MARKET I~ the course of "a dav or two
Hr Thought DO no would fetch ANYTHING
from 10000 to 100000. we shall
trr rH keep DO in this country ne add
81
A. present the radium iu being
stored .H T speedily constructed safe
r-sI with with lead and asbestos and
r-ur. IH.n precautions are taken 90
insure ..- safety
Tho process which is being adopted
or L.wenru7e ig much more rapid
Than any ~ use on the continent In
f.7r-iIu- this process Sir william
Ramsay said that tho nitchb1cude ore
vas delivered I'm n concentrated form
The uranium. and from and uranium
was Dissolved. and tho next stage wa,
O.. rr-r.nItltc the radium out Of the
Crr liquid.
Whom r--cipitated the radium wa'
converted into radium bromide Then
H. repeated capitalization this bro.
r.. re separated into various
grades nr commercial stability. Tn,
r.r.. tmr occupied iu getting tn,
@ liquors was "a week. said Sii
|" and the capitalization which
. .. rffrrward took n couple ol
~ The latest continent process
r. .. SAW described last week oc.
r.". year.
gstrat1r tho certainty OF tn,
.u ueo at Limchousc. nc men
Chat OFF $50 grams produced
Hnr w.Iirrgm would be left be.
r t.r liquid. Up to now ove'
gram had been extracted q
house. hut the process fs nov
nn continuously and the work
#fi out t' produce one gram
So far only five or six gram
known to have been produced 81
.. whole world.
Har been supposed" said Si
."U. THAT Austrian pitchbIende g.
PARTICULARLY rich in radium. but 20 &
richer than amy other. Moreover
f guuI- ~ pitchbiende in Cornwall
Hr He 4 can judge is much large
.- r Austria. There is no othe
"" m supply or such magnitude
Known no present. The supply OF "a
.HH 'u Great Britain o. aeeured.' %
SIR William remarked that poIonf
pm COR" ~ the discoveries OF Nine
.HrI'I could also be extracted bv
SIMPLE process from tho ore on whlcl
.' we're working. 10 had not bee
zone 90 present because poIonium IA,
rrter been brought into the rnarke,
pr - was probable that later 90 wouI
.e found useful in medicine