Word: hydrogen3
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...this purpose. But the technique is complicated and takes a long time. Now the University of California's Dr. John H. Lawrence, one of the first and most imaginative of the atomic medicine men, can do the job far faster with heavy-heavy water, the oxide of hydrogen3 or tritium.-The radiant atoms of tritium reveal themselves (to the Geiger or scintillation counter); from the dilution of tritium oxide, it is a simple matter to calculate the total amount of water in the body...
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