AFTER the discovery by Urey of the isotope of hydrogen of mass 2 (deuterium) and its concentration by electrolysis, it was natural to examine whether any other stable isotopes of hydrogen, and ...
Deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen, which, unlike “normal” hydrogen atoms, or protium, also contains a neutron. The isotope deuterium has one proton, one neutron and one electron. One out of ...
Like everything we see in the world, isotopes are a type of atom, the smallest unit of matter that retains all the chemical properties of an element. Isotopes are forms of a chemical element with ...