FROM THE ARCHIVEMay 16, 1937·Laredo, Texas

ATOM SMASHING & RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS

Scanned from The Laredo Times 192?-, May 16, 1937

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...ns titat promise to help man Greatest practical value of the mo ment in all the atomic bombardment research is the production of radioac tive elements artificially Radiosodium for example can give off piercing radia tion like that from radium for a matter of hours Physicians and scientists alike are keenly aware of the potential value of this production in the treatment of cancer.

The world of the atombuster is a region within the heart of an atom that is smaller in.

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Huge SHOTGLUNS o SMASH the TINYATOM Giant devices have beeq built to hurl millions of electric particles 10000 times faster und proportionately farther than a 16inch shell in an effort to discover the basic makeup of matter and what it can do for humhity By Robert D Potter HERE are fads and fashions in scientific research just as there are styles in muuqd_nut_oqmo biles each year. And the lgtest fashion in physical research is atom smashing Staggeringly huge apparatus that ri valsin appearance some of the fan tastic dreams of the Hollywood motion picture directors lends popular appeal to research which is fundamentally im portant and which is already bringing new knowledge to the nature of matter and applications titat promise to help man Greatest practical value of the mo ment in all the atomic bombardment research is the production of radioac tive elements artificially Radiosodium for example can give off piercing radia tion like that from radium for a matter of hours Physicians and scientists alike are keenly aware of the potential value of this production in the treatment of cancer. The world of the atombuster is a region within the heart of an atom that is smaller in.

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