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IN a recent issue of NATURE (132, 955; 1933) Lord Rutherford has suggested that the heavy isotope of hydrogen be named diplogen, instead of the name deuterium proposed by us. This was one name considered by us before we published our suggestion of the names protium and deuterium for the two isotopes of hydrogen.
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UREY, H., BRICKWEDDE, F. & MURPHY, G. Designation of Heavy Hydrogen. Nature 133, 173 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133173a0
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