Water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen atoms and therefore knowledge of the deuterium abundance in a body of water provides a clue to that body’s history and origin. This is a key component of ...

This isotope of hydrogen is called deuterium, and heavy water's more scientific name is deuterium oxide, abbreviated as D 2 0. With the ...

Water (or the solution of water and deuterium oxide) was allowed ad libitum, and the amount consumed was recorded each day For the studies of metabolic balance animals (control and experimental ...

THE deuterium content of naturally occurring water has so far been determined by two methods—from the mass-spectrogram of the hydrogen derived from it; and from the specific gravity of deuterium ...

This heavier isotope is now known as deuterium. Water (H 2 0), as you are likely painfully aware from school, is an inorganic compound comprised of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.

The secret lies in the ratio of two specific elements. Scientists have observed something unexpected in Venus' atmosphere — an increase in the level of deuterium relative to hydrogen. Okay, sure ...

Water with deuterium sticks to dust grains more readily than regular water does, and when ice clinging to the dust grains is released into the vapor trail of a comet, ...