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GK QUESTION#3497

Who was credited with discovering the hydrogen isotope, or heavy hydrogen, for which he later received the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

  1. AFrancis William Aston
  2. BGlenn Theodore Seaborg
  3. CHarold C UreyCorrect answer
  4. DFritz Haber
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C. Harold C Urey

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Harold C. Urey received the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering heavy hydrogen, deuterium. Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen whose nucleus contains one proton and one neutron. It is not a different chemical element.

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