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Re: [Phys-l] About Radium

On 04/07/2011 02:37 AM, chuck britton wrote:
In December 1903, while preparing to return to New Zealand, book collector
Dr Thomas Morland Hocken (1836-1910) purchased one sixth of a gram of radium
for £10.

No, he didn't.

In 1910 a sixth of a gram of radium was worth more than $10,000.00.
In 1903 it must have been worth even more than that.