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Atom Bomb By-products as Aid To Cancer Treatment
Royal Adelaide Hospital Installs Australia’s Most Modern Plant
New X-Ray Equipment
The Advertiser August 1946
Use of radio-active by-products of atomic bomb manufacture to trace spread of cancer may eventually aid cancer treatment by the powerful new Australian-made X-ray equipment just installed at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
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“Radium Cow”
HALF of the £9.000 radium supply used as well as Xray and surgery for cancer treatment at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, serves as a “radium cow” at Adelaide University. When “milked” by an intricate machine twice weekly, the “radium cow” goes on yielding about 240mlllicuries of radon. This is enough for a week’s treatment for 116 cancer out-patients. The “radium cow” consists of 450milligrammes of radium, kept in a flask in a concrete chamber, lined with five inches of solid lead.
Atomic Sheep
The Advertiser October 1953
Adelaide agricultural scientists hope to produce better wool with the help of radiation. It has been found that Merino wool on sheep grazed near radioactive minerals around the Myponga area are producing better wool than other sheep. The discovery was made when Dr. James Galthing, a geologists investigating uranium deposits near Wild Dog creek ran into colleagues Mr. S. Rathbone and Mr’s Jalf and Semple from the Department of agriculture. The chance meeting at Myponga hotel last Friday has led to speculation that the cause of the improved wool may be the trace minerals of Uranite in the area. Further tests will be conducted on local sheep with the department arranging for 12 animals to be transferred to their research facility at Northfield. The Department of mines reports that work is continuing at Wild Dog creek with an exploratory shaft being dug following the recent discoveries.
The Atomic Steel Coal Gas
South Australian Chronicle January 1880
About 200 gentlemen assembled in the Town Hall Exchange-room on Tuesday evening,January 13, to listen to a lecture by Mr. J.Pitman on the atomic steam coal gas — Crutchett’s patent, which was described in the advertisement calling the meeting as the “gas of the future.” Mr. W. O. Baik, J.P., occupied the chair. Mr. Pitman, on beginning his lecture, disclaimed any desire to be considered as a practical gas engineer, and pointed out that he was i-y profession an architect; but he wished to place before the meeting some facts with which he had acquainted himself on -the system of atomic steam coal gas, as discovered and patented by a friend of his, Mr. Jamee Crutchett, O.E., of Philadelphia, U.S.A.
The old system of generating gas was pretty well understood, so that he would not occupy their time with any description of it. Coal -contained from 75 per cent, to 80 per cent, of carbon, bat to avail themselves of this, coal most be pulverised, and in the new system discovered by Crutchett the coal was first reduced to dust and then thrown into a furnace or cupola at intervals, corresponding to the action of the human pulse, accompanied by jets of steam, and the -result was that the carbon of the coal was immediately absorbed by the hydrogen of the steam from every atom of the coal, and the gas was instantly made. It was not possible by the old method to abstract and utilise all the carbon in the coal.