Abstract

IT is now practically certain that the final product of the uranium family of radio-elements is isotopic, or chemically identical, with lead. The constancy of the ratio between lead and uranium, Pb/U, in the case of primary rock-forming minerals of the same geological age, and its sympathetic variation in the case of minerals of different ages, go far to establish this important conclusion. The recent discovery that all the final products of radio-active disintegration fall into Group iv. B of the periodic classification has naturally led to the further suggestion that each one is isotopic with lead.

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