The Discovery of Deuterium in original wrappers

Urey, H. C. ; Brickweede, F. G. ; Murphy, G. M.

[The Discovery of Deuterium] A Hydrogen Isotope of Mass 2 WITH Hydrogen Isotope of Mass 2 and Its Concentration [2 items]

Minneapolis, Minnesota: The American Physical Society 1932. First Edition. 191, [1 blank], 8 pages. 7 x 10 inches. The entire issue of the Physical Review, Vol. 39 #1 (Second Series), January 1, 1932 offered. Publisher's original green printed wrappers. A nice copy with minor browning to the covers and spine panel at the extremities and some creasing to the rear wrapper. Lower corner creasing, overall minor wear.

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6, 135, [1 blank], 8 pages. 7 x 10 inches. The entire issue of the Physical Review, Vol. 40 #1 (Second Series), April 1, 1932 offered. Publisher's original green printed wrappers. A nice copy with minor browning to the covers and spine panel. This issue also includes an article on the further development of the cyclotron by Lawrence and Livingston. Near Fine. Wraps. [24518]


The first article offered here announces the discovery of the deuteron, which we now know as deuterium. The second article, 15 pages long, provides far more detail on the methods used, how the concentration of the new isotope was achieved so that it could be reliably measured. Together, they detail the Discovery of Deuterium. "Deuterium (symbol D or 2H, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen. The nucleus of deuterium, called a deuteron, contains one proton and one neutron, whereas the far more common hydrogen isotope, protium, has no neutron in the nucleus. Deuterium has a natural abundance in Earth's oceans of about one atom in 6420 of hydrogen." (wiki)

Deuterium has important applications in nuclear reactors, NMR Spectroscopy, geology, and a myriad of other areas. A further article was published in the April issue which addressed in considerably more detail the concentration of the newly discovered isotope and why that worked. "Soon after deuterium's discovery, Urey and others produced samples of "heavy water" in which the deuterium had been highly concentrated."

"Harold Clayton Urey (April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. He played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, but may be most prominent for his contribution to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter...At Johns Hopkins, Urey and Arthur Ruark wrote Atoms, Quanta and Molecules (1930), one of the first English texts on quantum mechanics and its applications to atomic and molecular systems." (wiki)

Most often found in bound ex-library volumes, we offer here the original issue of the Physical Review as it was published.

REFERENCES:
See Ezhela, et al,, pp 64-65, (Urey 1932 and Urey 1932B) "Evidence for the deuteron" and "Discovery of the deuteron".

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