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UNTOLD POWER OF THE ATOM.

SIR E. RUFORD'S RESEARCHES:

THE STORY OF ALCHEMY ANCIENT AND MODERN.

The dream of the alchemist «was' to obtain such mastery of Nature's

secrets as would enable him to in- terfere with the essences of things, and, in particular, to change one metal into another (says Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade, writing in a London paper). The adept be lieved that his mystic art would bring him not only spiritual good but also material prosperity by in- structing him how to turn lead or

quicksilver into gold. Our mo- dern science is concerned not only with pure knowledge but also has amaterial ambition, if a distant one, set not on cheap gold, a com- modity of no particular ast, but on cheap power; an agent capable of infinite abuse, but one in which man hopefully sees a release from toil, with all the blessings that that implies. It is with the distant prospect of power from atomic scurers that Sir Arthur Edding- ton has just been entertaining the World Power Conference at Ber-

lia.

Radium 154

Source of Energy. The changer of the radio-active Discussion of how far transmuta-elements are beyond our control. tion of the elements has been achier. They represent the heaviest and not ed brings us at once to the inodern most complex atoms of which wo work on the structure of the atom,

have knowledge, and they transmute 40- and in particular to the researches themselves fall to pieces on of Bir Ernest Rutherford, who count of their own complexity, as from the days when he first made it were--and give out energy is clear the physical significance of cording to their own immutable radio-activity has led the way with laws. The sipha particles, which other men's ethereal fancies. The solid experiments bolder than

some of them discharge with en- facts of radio-activity first led to mous velocity, farnish, however,

a realisation that some kinds of an enormous local concentration of atoms, at any rate, were not per- energy, such as, if it were produc" manent, unbreakable, unchanged by heat, would require a tem able structures manufactured in unimaginably remote times, but perature of many thousands of were minute electrical machines, degrees centigrade. Taking ad- full of moving parts and inter vantage of this Sir Ernest Ruther changes of energy. In the radio- ford has succeeded in disrupting, active elements we have atoms which changing the nature of certain themselves to other light atoms. The amounts of mat. transform kinds of atoms; half of any given ter which he has transmuted are quantity of the element radium be far less than weighable quantities; comes, through many stages, the it is only because the technique clement lead in two thousand which he has evolved detects single years or so. The transmutation is atoms that the transmutation can accompanied by a release of energy. be detected. There are attendant which in the case of some radio releases of energy on the same min- active elements takes the form of an ute scale. Nothing so far achieved atoms of helium, the so-called al released atomic energy to dinge a expulsion of material particles artificially in the laboratory has pha particles at enormous speeds, single hair, or a millionth part of in other cases the discharge of par-it the emission of radiations of the ticles of negative electricity and

character of ordinary X-rays, but much more penetrating, for they go through inches of lead, Should such a radiation prove to be a common form for the energy re- leased from atoms the engineer of problems to deal with.. the future will have some delicate

The Atom Within the Atom..

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Energy From Space.

Mass and Energy, Strangely enough, perhaps, the two problems, the transmutation of the elements and the release of atomic energy, are,

to modern science, one problem. One of the 'lestons of Einstein's great work is that, if we could make mass ap- parently disappear, it would be re- placed by a creation of energy. Mass and energy are equivalent. Radio-activity reveals to us both The annihilation of only a very and the seat of the changes which the possibilities of atomic energy small amount of matter is needed lead to its release. The work of to produce a great release of en- the last twenty years has demon- ergy: one ounce, for instance, strated that all atoms, radio-active should give more than a million or not; bave a structure, the essen- horse power for a day, if we could tis feature of which is a central only effect the exchange. Now Dr. nucleus, in which the mase is con- Aston's extraordinarily delicate: centrated, endowed with an excess work on flying atoms in a dis...) of positive electricity, The charge tube has proved that atoms nuclens itself has a very complicat do not weigh exactly the same as ed structure, containing not only do their component parts, weigh such particles as radio-active atoms ed separately and added, or, in discharge, but also a mechanism other words, that by the trans for emitting the penetrating rays mutation of elements, could we at Change the charge on the nucleus tain to it, we should be able to and you have transformed the no- annihilate maag and create energy.

ture of the atom, whatever it may The money value of the energy, be, but you have also upset a bal could it be utilised as can the en-ance between energy and mass, into us operates to produce in our ergy of fuel, would far exceed the volving the production of power profit of turning the basest ele on a scale unknown to engineers ment to gold.

and fuel technologists.

In the bowels of the earth the transmutations of the metals uranium and thorium to lead, with radium as a stage in one of the series has been going on since the planet existed, and the heat- ing effect is big enough to have a gangible effect on the cooling of the earth. The very penetrating cosmic rays, which reach us from outer space, are interpreted by some, not- ably Millikan, as evidence that

bulae, beavier atoms are somewhere, in the stars or in no

being built up from lighter ones, with the slight loss of mass demonstrat- ed by Aston, and consequently with production of energy. Other at tribute the rays to the actual an- nihilation of the mass of hydrogra stoms, by a mechanism of which we know nothing." The question is a ticklish one, for the decision of which suficient laboratory evidence is still to asek. Be this as it may, the possibility of, running power- stations by the transmutation or partial destruction of the elements of a cupful of water, seems almost as remote as those distant clouds of gas where an alchemy unknown atmosphere the few electribed par- ticles which first revealed to the cosmic rays,

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