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WE have been successful in achieving a partial separation of the isotopes of mercury by evaporating, mercury at low pressure and condensing the evaporated atoms on a cooled surface. The rate of evaporation of the isotopes being inversely proportional to the square root of their atomic weight, and practically every atom leaving the liquid being condensed on the highly cooled surface, a partial separation of the isotopes of mercury was to be expected.
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BRöNSTED, J., HEVESY, G. The Separation of the Isotopes of Mercury. Nature 106, 144 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106144c0
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