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WE have made a preliminary survey of the principal respects in which the reaction of deuterium with oxygen differs from that of ordinary hydrogen. The deuterium was prepared by the nearly quantitative decomposition of 97 per cent deuterium oxide by repeated passage over pure iron. The reaction with oxygen was studied by methods which have been used in this laboratory in a number of previous investigations of the normal hydrogen–oxygen reaction. All experiments with deuterium were made in alternation with blank experiments carried out sometimes with cylinder hydrogen and sometimes with hydrogen made from water in the apparatus used for preparing the deuterium. No differences between these different specimens of normal hydrogen were found.
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J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 56, 1251; 1934.
Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 141, 29; 1933.
See Hinshelwood and Williamson, "The Reaction of Hydrogen with Oxygen" (Clarendon Press, 1934).
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HINSHELWOOD, C., WILLIAMSON, A. & WOLFENDEN, J. The Reaction between Oxygen and the Heavier Isotope of Hydrogen. Nature 133, 836–837 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133836c0
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