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A. C. CREHORE, in his recent papers on “The Hydrogen Molecule” in the Philosophical Magazine (October 1921, May 1922, and June 1922), makes use of the specially constituted atoms of hydrogen and helium discussed by him, and of a hypothetical atom, the atomic weight of which is 21/3, to build up some of the other atoms. He uses H particles, hydrogen with charge + e; α-particles, helium with charge + 2e; and particles of his hypothetical element, with positive charge +e. I think it is clear that he recognises the need for a helium particle with positive charge +e in addition, if neutral atoms are to be built up in the way he indicates. In one of his models one of the particles marked 4 is also marked with a dot, and this evidently means that it has a charge + e only. Calling these particles, glucinum or beryllium becomes α, γ, H and its structure appears to be γ—— α—— H, where the hyphens indicate electrons. Its isotope, of atomic weight 12, is —γ—H —γ—H…, forming a simple ring of unit-charged particles. Nitrogen is 2α, γ, 2H, and may have the structure
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ALLEN, H. Periodic Structure of Atoms and Elements. Nature 110, 415 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110415a0
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