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- From: moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: Films and surface effects
- Message-ID: <MOSS.92Jul22112927@ibis.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 15:29:27 GMT
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- In-reply-to: bill@xpresso.UUCP's message of 21 Jul 92 19:35:21 GMT
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- >>>>> On 21 Jul 92 19:35:21 GMT, bill@xpresso.UUCP (Bill Vance) said:
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- Bill> Please excuse my elementry level chemo/physics, but I might have a
- Bill> possible clue for you. Leaving out whatever extras might be involved as
- Bill> an electrolyte, isn't the deuterium what used to be known poopularly as
- Bill> "heavy water"? i.e. water with an extra oxygen atom? .....
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- Well, my physics, etc., is only elementary, but (no offense intended, Bill)
- clearly better than yours. Even I know that heavy water is D2O as opposed to
- ordinary water H2O. H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide; D2O2 would be deuterium
- peroxide I guess. What's heavy about the water is that each hydrogen atom has
- an additional neutron in the nucleus, making it deuterium. Two deuterons can
- fuse to make a helium nucleus and release energy; this is one of the basic
- fusion reactions that can happen in the core of stars, etc.
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