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WHEN a mixture of mercury vapour and oxygen is irradiated with the mercury resonance line 2537, the mercury becomes oxidised. Since excitation is a necessary stage in the oxidation, Mrozowski1 has suggested that it should be possible to produce a separation of the mercury isotopes by exciting them selectively. If the reaction consists of the primary photochemical process Hg+ + O2 HgO + O only the atomic species which are excited by the incident light should be oxidised.
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ZUBER, K. Separation of the Mercury Isotopes by a Photochemical Method. Nature 136, 796 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136796a0
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