A Hydrogen Isotope of Mass 2
中考励志句子-客服工作职责
39,164
1932
AHydrogenIsotopeofMass2,edde,
ColumbiaUniversityandtheBureauofStanda
rds
(ReceivedDecember5,1931)
Theproton-elect
ronplotofknownatomicnucleishowssomerather
marke
dregularitiesamongatomsofloweratomicnumber
1
.UptoO
16
a
simplestep-wisefigureappearsi
ntowhichthenuclearspeciesH
2
,H
3
and<
br>He
6
couldbefindMenzel
2
haveshownth
atthe
discrepancybetweenthechemicalatomicweight
ofhydrogenandAston’s
valuebythemassspectrograph
couldbeaccountedforbytheassumption
ofahydrogeni
sotopeofmass2presenttotheextentof1partin4500parts<
br>ofhydrogenofmass1.
Itispossibletocalculatewi
thconfidencethevaporpressuresofthepure
substance
sH
1
H
1
,H
1
H
2
,H
1<
br>H
3
,
isonlynecessarytoassumethatinthe
Debyetheoryofthesolidstate,Θis
inverselyproport
ionaltothesquarerootofthemassesofthesemoleculesand
thattherotationalandvibrationalenergiesofthemo
leculesdonotchange
ssumptionsareinaccordwithwel
l-
findthatthevaporpressuresfor
thesethreemol
eculesinequilibriumwiththeirsolidsshouldbeintherat
io
ofp
11
:p
12
:p
13
=1:0.37
:oryoftheliquidstateisnotso
wellunderstoodbutit
seemsreasonabletobelievethatthedifferencesin
vap
orpressureofthesemoleculesinequilibriumwiththeirli
quidsshouldbe
ratherlargeandshouldmakepossiblea
rapidconcentrationoftheheavier
isotopes,iftheye
xist,intheresiduefromthesimpleevaporationofliquid<
br>hydrogennearitstriplepoint.
Accordinglytwosa
mplesofhydrogenwerepreparedbyevaporatinglarge
q
uantitiesofliquidhydrogenandcollectingthegaswhiche
vaporatedfrom
firstsamplewascollected
1
2<
br>Urey,.53,2872(1931);Johnston,ibid.,53,2866(1931
).
BirgeandMenzel,.37,1669(1931).
1
fromtheendportionofsixlitersofliquidevaporatedat
atmosphericpres-
sure,andthesecondsamplefromfou
rlitersevaporatedatapressureonly
cessofliquefac
tionhas
probablynoeffectinchangingtheconcentrati
onoftheisotopessinceno
appreciablechangewasobse
rvedinthesampleevaporatedatatmospheric
pressure
.
Thesesampleswereinvestigatedfortheatomicspect
raofH
2
andH
3
in
ahydrogendischarg
etuberuninWood’sso-called“blackstage”byusing
th
esecondorderofa21footgratingwithadispersionof1.31A
permm.
Withthesampleevaporatedattheboilingpoint
noconcentrationsohigh
increasedtheexposuressothattheratioofthetimeofexposuretotheminimumrequi
redtogetthe
H
1
linesonourplateswasabout4
500:heseconditionswefound
inthissampleaswellasi
nordinaryhydrogenfaintlinesatthecalculated
posi
tionsforthelinesofH
2
accompanyingH
β
,H
γ
,H
δ
.Theselinesdonot
agreeinw
ave-lengthwithanymolecularlinesreportedinthelitera
ture
3
.
Howevertheyweresoweakthatitwasdi
fficulttobesurethattheywere
notghostsofthestrongl
yoverexposedatomiclines.
Thesampleofhydrogeneva
poratednearthetriplepointshowsthese
linesgreatl
yenhanced,relativetothelinesofH
1
,overbotht
hoseofor-
dinaryhydrogenandofthefiativeintensiti
escanbe
judgedbythenumberandintensityofthesymme
tricalghostsontheplates.
Thewave-lengthsoftheH<
br>2
linesappearingontheseplatescouldbeeasilylowingtablegivesthemeanofthe
observeddisplace
mentsoftheselinesfromthoseofH
1
andthecalcul
ated
displacements:
Line
∆λcalc.
∆λobs
.
Ordinaryhydrogen
1stsample
2ndsample
H
α
1.793
—
—
1.820
H
β
1
.326
1.346
1.330
1.315
H
γ
1.185
1.206
1.199
1.176
H
δ
1.119
1.145
1.103
—
TheH
2
linesarebroad,
asistobeexpectedforcloseunresolveddoublets,
but
theyarenotasbroadanddiffuseastheH
1
linesprob
ablyduetothe
smallerD¨ghtheirintensitiesrelativ
etotheghosts
Gale,MonkandLee,Astrophys.J.57,89(
1928);Finkelnburg,52,57
(1928);Connelly,.42,28(
1929).
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2
oftherespectiveH
1linesappearnearlyconstantforanyonesampleof
hy
drogen,theyarenotghostsfortheirintensitiesrelative
totheknown
ghostsarenotthesameinthecaseofordina
ryhydrogenandofthe1st
enotmolecular
linesfor
theydonotappearonaplatetakenwiththedischargetubein
the“whitestage”withthemolecularspectrumenhance
dH
2
γwasfound
asaslightirregularityonami
crophotometercurveofthisplate).Finally
theH
2
α,lineisresolvedintoadoubletwithaseparationof
about0.16Ain
agreementwiththeobservedseparation
oftheH
1
αline.
Therelativeabundanceinord
inaryhydrogen,judgingfromrelativemin-
imumexpos
uretimeisabout1:4000,orless,inagreementwithBirgean
d
Menzel’arestimateoftheabundanceinthesecondsam
ple
appreciablefractiona-
tionhasbeensecured
asexpectedfromtheory
4
.
NoevidenceforH2
hasbeensecured,butitslineswouldfallonregion
s
ofourplateswherethehalationisbad.
Thedisti
llationwascarriedoutattheBureauofStandardsbyoneofu
s
(F.G.B.),whoiscontinuingthefractionationtosec
uremorehighlyconcen-
ctroscopicworkwasdoneatCol
umbiaUniversity
bytheothertwo(.M.M.)whoareworki
ngonthemolecular
spectrum.
edde
4
KeesomandvanDijk,dam34,52(1931).
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