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CHEMISTS cannot admit such fearsome wild fowl as Diplogen to their sanctuary of elements—elements no longer, subject as they are to protono–decapitation and reheading to satisfy simple sums. Diplogen is an offence against the usages of the house chemical, philologically unsound and bereft of reason. The gens are all gentles with specific functions: hydrogen the gen of water; oxygen the gen of acid; nitrogen the gen of nitre. Diplogen, the gen of twins, can have no place in such company. Diplogin, if you will, as it has so gone to the heads of physicists—but Diplogen, never ! It's a twin not a twinner. Fish will leave the waters, if they learn that such a monster is around.
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ARMSTRONG, H. Designation of Heavy Hydrogen. Nature 133, 173 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133173b0
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