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Can you drink heavy water? Other lore about Deuterium

submitted by deathcow

1 decade 3 years 5 months ago

Part 1 Here
http://www.periodicvideos.com/videos/mv_heavywater.htm

I thought part 2 was interesting enough to post. From Wikipedia:

Heavy water is water highly enriched in the hydrogen isotope deuterium;[1] e.g., heavy water used in reactors is 99.75% enriched (in ordinary water, the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio is about 156 parts per million). Pure heavy water is not radioactive. It is about 11% denser than water, but otherwise, is physically and chemically similar.

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The heavy water sabotage he mentions is quite interesting, even as summarised in Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage

There were deaths from the ferry sabotage, even if the original heavy water plant sabotage had none.

I knew it was all sounding familiar. I saw that recent documentary about that sunken boat related to this.

dystopianfuturetoday

I'm loving that science fro.

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I wish I had this guy as a prof.

I've had that same thought about once per video from this guy.

hahaha they deutered the dog

I'm Bob Beaker Reminding You To Deuter Your Dog!

Thanks for sifting this. I love these.

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Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, April 28th, 2011 10:01pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter deathcow.

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