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MESSRS. C. O. DAVIS and H. L. Johnston report1 that when metallic sodium is dissolved in heavy water, the diplogen content of the evolved hydrogen is reduced and the diplogen content of the solution correspondingly increased. We wish to put forward the results of similar experiments, which have been carried out in a somewhat different way and seem to lead to a more precise interpretation of this reaction.
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This has also been independently recognised by H. Eyring, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 19, 78; 1933.
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HORIUTI, J., SZARO, A. Reaction of Heavy Water with Metallic Sodium. Nature 133, 327–328 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133327c0
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