At low pressures, the liquid deuterium is transparent to light – which means that it is an insulator. As the pressure rose to about 150 GPa, the liquid absorbed light and became opaque. Then, at about ...

Scientists in the US (Sandia Labs) and Germany (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry) have successfully transformed liquid deuterium into a metal at pressures rivalling those at the center of our own ...

In order to observe a liquid metal crossing over to a plasma, the LLE researchers started off with the liquid metal deuterium, which displayed the classical properties of a liquid.

If such a state of deuterium should exist at the reported density of about 100,000 g/cm3, it would greatly facility the ignition of a thermonuclear detonation wave in pure deuterium, by placing the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Through laser experiments, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicists determined that deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, turns into a metal at a higher density than ...

The first-ever hydrogen bomb blast, Ivy Mike, required American weaponeers to create an vast new industrial capacity for manufacturing liquid hydrogen in its "heavy" form of liquid deuterium. By ...

Deuterium oxide (D 2 O), aka “heavy water”, is the form of water that contains two atoms of the 2 H, or D, isotope. The term heavy water is also used for water in which 2 H atoms replace only some of ...