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A RATHER low yield of the heavy water obtained with the usual method of electrolysis, using the single-phase full-wave Tunger valve rectifier, led us to investigate the cause of loss of the heavy water. Besides a good deal of loss through evaporation and spraying, and possibly a loss arising from an exchange reaction occurring at the electrode, the rectified current employed may have been also a contributing factor to the loss.
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ASADA, T., HONDE, E. An Effect of Rectified Current from a Tunger Valve upon the Electrolytic Separation of Heavy Water. Nature 139, 885–886 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139885b0
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