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Light Helium

NOV 01, 1948

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066198

Alfred O. C. Nier

The natural occurrence of a helium isotope of atomic weight 3 was observed in the Berkeley cyclotron in 1939 by Alvarez and Cornog, who showed that its abundance was very low compared with that of the normal helium atom of atomic weight 4.

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Volume 1, Number 7

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