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Show t Chemist Produces Water With Extra Weightjualities Laboratory Liquid la Pura, but Tan Par Cant Haav-lar Haav-lar Than Product of Natura 'ear VsasMSaJ Pfa)Ja)t BERKELEY. Cel.. March 1 A drink of a new kind of water compounded by Profeasor Gilbert N. Lewis, dean of tha college of chemistry at tha University of California, ia 10 par cent heavier than ordinary water. It haa greater buoyancy than aaa water. It cannot be distinguished from ordinary or-dinary water by any known chemical tost Furthermore. It challenge tha existing ex-isting system of weighta and measure menta. Thee were tha claim announced for the new product today in the California Monthly, official magaiin of the California Alumni association. Like common water, tha new water la composed of one atom of oxygen and two atom of hydrogen. The atoms of hydrogen, however, belong to a new family of atom, known as isotope, which ar twice, a heavy. They hava an atomic weight of two Instead of one. The Isotope of hydrogen content In tha new water cast a doubt upon the International etandard of weight and measure which depend upon the constancy of tha weight of water at a pecttic temperature. Dean Lewis explained. Tha metric system of weight and measure fixes tha kilogram aa the weight of one thousand cubic centimeters centi-meters of distilled water at four degree de-gree centigrade. Tha liter la defined veaeel containing a kilogram of distilled water at lero, centigrade. If the new water were substituted for ordinary water the kitogram would weigh 100 grama mora than tha present pres-ent system and the liter would contain con-tain 1001 cubic centimeters. ..T ta not " W,lf "ay be made till heavier. Lewis claimed. By concentrating con-centrating the isotope of hydrogen and the heaviest Isotope of oxygen wetar would weigh 10 per rent more than the kind wa now get out of faucets and would hava a greater buoyancy than the R20 of Great Salt lake. |