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WE have discovered an Overhauser effect in natural crude oil. The phenomenon was detected in a 12-ml. sample of oil in an H 0 field of 18.5 gauss (νp = 80 kc./s. ; νe = 52.6 Mc./s.).
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POINDEXTER, E. An Overhauser Effect in Natural Crude Oil. Nature 182, 1087 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821087a0
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