DEUTERIUM

Deuterium

Deuterium is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen. It has a natural abundance in Earth's oceans of about one atom in of hydrogen. Thus deuterium accounts for approximately 0.0156% of all the naturally occurring hydrogen in the oceans, while the most common isotope accounts for more than 99.98%. The abundance of deuterium changes slightly from one kind of natural water to another .

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deuterium

Noun

  1. An isotope of hydrogen formed of one proton and one neutron in each atom - .
    Heavy water is “heavy” because it contains deuterium.
  2. An atom of this isotope.
    There were about 80 deuteriums for every million protiums, and virtually no tritium.


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