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THE April issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society contains some communications on the subject of ‘heavy hydrogen’ and ‘heavy water’ (names used by the authors). H. S. Taylor and Selwood announce an error in the calibration of apparatus which makes the viscosity previously reported erroneous; the correct value is 12.6 milli-poises at 20°. The ratio of specific gravities of heavy and light waters at 25° is 1.1079, whilst Lewis and Luten give 1.1056. Pure D2O apparently readily takes up moisture from the atmosphere. The ratio D2O/H2O in natural water is about 1 in 5000–6000, in agreement with the mass-spectrograph results of Bleakney and Goulcl.
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Heavy Hydrogen. Nature 133, 881 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133881a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133881a0