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in the form of insoluble sulphate salts are resoved from the solution; second, these sulphate salts are treated to remove certain impurities and are then converted into an acid moluble form and additional impurities are rezoved; third, these salts, with the impurities removed, are converted into radium and barium chloride or bromide salts; and, finally, the radium and bariun are separated by a process of fractional crystal- lization, resulting in a radium bromide salt of approximately 90 to 98% purity. This bromide selt is in the forma of a white crystalline povder. the only method of determining the quantity of radium present in the radium bromide salte is by neasuring the intensity of the emitted radiations. The redium in the bromide salts enits only the alpha radiation, the intensity of shich does not permit of accurate acasurement because the alpha ray has only a very slight penetrating pover. But the ganma rays, which have à strong penetrating pover, permit of accurate measurement, and accordingly, the quantity of radium 1s deternined by nessuring the garma radiation from the decay elements in equilibrium with the redium. the ganna ray is not emitted in the series of disintegrations until radium c (bismuth 214) is reached. Starting with radium in the form of the bromide salts, the next element is radon, a gas, and unless the bromide salts are sealed the gaseous radon will be dissipated in the air, thus -7-

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