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The deeds to deuterium

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Dan O'Leary examines Harold Urey's decision to name the mass-2 hydrogen isotope 'deuterium'.

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O'Leary, D. The deeds to deuterium. Nature Chem 4, 236 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1273

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