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IN his letter in NATURE of June 26, Dr. Schiller quotes with disapproval Mr. Holmes's deduction that the “heavy metallic core” of the earth “must be completely destitute of radium”; for this deduction, in Dr. Schiller's opinion, “involves the improbability that the heaviest metal of all, uranium, has not gravitated to the ‘metallic core,’ and does not explain why this core should be destitute of radio-active substances”.
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FERMOR, L. Radio-Activity and the Age of the Earth. Nature 91, 476–477 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091476c0
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