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IN 1940, we prepared the isotope of mass 211 of element 85 by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles accelerated in the 60-in. cyclotron of the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California 1.

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propagation of electro-magnetic waves along periodic circuits and filtering properties of such systems.