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I WAS absent from Montreal during the time of the interesting discussion on radium which appeared in the Times, and it is only quite recently that I have had an opportunity of reading the correspondence in full. In the course of this discussion some weight has been attached to a remark in the second edition of my book “Radio- activity,” viz. that radium is a compound of helium and lead. It is far from my intention to reopen this discussion, on which I think quite enough has already been said, but in the last issue of NATURE (September 27) which I have Just received, there appears a letter by Lord Kelvin in which this remark is still further emphasised.
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RUTHERFORD, E. The Recent Radium Controversy. Nature 74, 634–635 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074634b0
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