40 Origin of the Chemical Elements 



The radium atom could only exist (in nature) as rays of elec- 

 tricity, because they arise in the continual combustion of changing 

 fields of gaseous electricity generated by the decomposition of inter- 

 nal atoms, occupying critical positions in primal forces in groupings. 



The individualization of any atomic construction must depend 

 upon its external fields of gaseous electricity. We do not see this 

 phenomena when external, but when radium was discovered with 

 its great forces of internal oxidation, it was impossible to overlook 

 it. Radium, made up of a system where the static group of four 

 atoms (nelium?) has become transmuted into a dynarnic system 

 of six parts furnishes a condition where the decomposition of the 

 primal part is made active throughout the whole mass, and a con- 

 tinual production of groups of atoms are formed, as the gamma or 

 Rontgen rays always accompany the emission of a beta particle or 

 electron, and never appear otherwise; also that it is only in some 

 of the changes that electrons are thrown off. 



It is through the properties of the *' emanation " that radium must 

 be analyzed. If there are seven different kinds of atoms, each equal 

 in mass, there must be seven different kinds of radium atoms, 

 because each atom is made up of a definite quantity of gaseous 

 electricity (as electric charges) moving in definite directions. The 

 decomposition of the groups of atoms into electric charges would 

 bring into opposition many of the charges, and these charges rotating 

 in centres would build up different kinds of substances and Professor 

 Rutherford has isolated six, which he has named Radium A, B, C, 

 D, E, F. As we have already shown, there are six stages in the 

 primal fixation of " definite quantities of groups of gaseous elec- 

 tricity," these " groups " continually being condensed into atom and 

 groups of atoms. 



The dynamic part of the system, as 3, is in a state of continuous 

 radiation, the static part of 4 being the non-radioactive. 



The dynamic part governs the production of an atmosphere about 

 the atom, an atmosphere about the groups of atoms, and an atmos- 

 phere about the whole six stages as one indivisible spherical stratifi- 

 cation. 



There are three atmospheres, each of a different constitution, be- 

 cause of the different positions of rotating groups. 



As radium is the largest atomic grouping as an indivisible centre 

 when the whole is brought into decomposition, it will possess the 

 power of building up six different kinds of radium atoms, before 

 it has become a balanced system in continuous radiation, and the 

 origin of Radium A, B, C, D, E, F, is explained. As atoms, and 

 groups of atoms, arise in a source of continuous radiation, there 

 must be an " atomic " grouping of the radiation itself, but this 

 grouping will be found in connection with different kinds of 

 minerals. There is, therefore, a dynamic as well as a static form 

 of all matter, and we are forced to inquire, is gold the static form 

 of radium or is radium the dynamic form of water? 



Radium is the transmuted or negatively electrified static group of 

 4 atoms into a dynamic group of 128 atoms; or the 4 static group. 



