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"Heavy Water" Produced by Frost In Cruft Laboratory Experiments

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Production of "heavy water," a new substance in which the hydrogen atom has a mass of two instead of one, is new possible due to recent experimental research by Arthur A. Frost, Harvard Fellow in Chemistry, and others at Princeton, New Jersey.

This new liquid, priced at $150 a gram, can now be made at the rate of one thimbleful at a time, where formerly only a single drop was produced. "Heavy water" will be useful to physicists studying the structure of the atom.

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