Radon Seeds

✍ Scribed by C.

• Book ID: 104129223
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1933
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 55 KB
• Volume: 215
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(33)91264-8

✦ Synopsis

Radon

Seeds.--Radium, a well-known radioactive element of great therapeutic value, gradually disintegrates into a gas called Radon. Radon gas, like its parent, emits radiations which may be looked upon as X-rays of relatively short wave-length. Such radiations are used in the treatment of some forms of cancer.

From G. H. LASH, Press Representative of the Canadian National Railway, we learn that the University of Toronto is installing a plant to handle these radium emanations or Radon. The substance is to be put up in tiny gold tubes and the preparations are known as Radon seeds.

C.