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I HAVE read Prof. Harkins's letter with great interest. If Prof. Harkins has succeeded in separating the isotopic hydrochloric acids he is certainly to be congratulated. The very meagre positive results from my work with neon described at the British Association meeting in 1913 convinced me of the extreme difficulty and labour of such diffusion experiments. In the case of neon I had only to grapple with a twentieth root in the diffusion equation, whereas with HCl it is the thirty-sixth root which is involved. In connection with the possibility of a third isotope of chlorine in the full account of my recent analysis of this element, now in the press, I have described a faint line at 39 which may be this.
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ASTON, F. The Separation of the Element Chlorine into Normal Chlorine and Meta-Chlorine, and the Positive Electron. Nature 105, 231 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105231a0
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