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deuterium
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deuterium

Naturally occurring heavy isotope of hydrogen, mass number 2 (one proton and one neutron), discovered by US chemist Harold Urey in 1932. It is sometimes given the symbol D. In nature, about one in every 6,500 hydrogen atoms is deuterium. Combined with oxygen, it produces ‘heavy water’ (D2O), used in the nuclear industry.



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Passing through plastic material and heavy hydrogen further slows the neutrons until they eventually emerge at the desired speeds.
Last year, nuclei of heavy hydrogen and of gold were slammed against each other at RHIC.
There, scientists zapped clusters of atoms of deuterium, or heavy hydrogen, with brief but extremely powerful laser pulses.
 
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