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DR. BONHOEFFER'S discovery that it is possible to separate out two distinct kinds of molecules from ordinary hydrogen, to which reference was made in NATURE of April 20 (p. 621), would appear, from Press reports of the Minneapolis meeting of the American Chemical Society on Sept. 10. to have formed the subject of a further communication there by Dr. Bonhoeffer himself. Dr. Bonhoeffer has not attempted to split up the proton, the nucleus of the hydrogen atom (H), but has simply subjected hydrogen gas (H2), as usually prepared, to treatment similar to that employed in many other physico-chemical processes. It appears that he has not only shown that it consists of two molecular species—each, however, with the same formula, H2—but has also been able to prepare at least one form in a practically pure state, and to find a number of its physical constants, which are not the same as those of the mixture which is ordinary hydrogen.
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News and Views. Nature 124, 455–459 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124455b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124455b0