THE NEWEST METAL | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 19, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 16.

THE NEWEST METAL.

PARTICULARS are out regarding the new metal discovered by the Tuscan engineers, Trayaglini and Fabiani. The discoverers have given it the name radium argentiferum. The metal is composed of copper, iron, and infinitesimal portions of silver, radium, and phosphorus. The chief secret, it is said, lies in the phosphorus. It is claimed by the patentees that radium argentiferum is stronger than steel, does not oxidize, is a better conductor than copper, and can be manufactured in large quantities at one-tenth the cost of bronze. Therefore, they expect that it will be largely used in making cannon, munitions, etc., and that it will supersede copper in electric wires.—American Inventor.