Definitions for deuterium

deuterium deu·te·ri·um

Spelling: [doo-teer-ee-uh m, dyoo-]
IPA: /duˈtɪər i əm, dyu-/

Deuterium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 241 anagrams from letters in deuterium (deeimrtuu).

Definitions for deuterium

noun

  1. an isotope of hydrogen, having twice the mass of ordinary hydrogen; heavy hydrogen. Symbol: D; atomic weight: 2.01; atomic number: 1.

Origin of deuterium

1933; Greek deúter(os) second (see deutero-) + -ium

Examples for deuterium

deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen containing a proton and neutron in its nucleus, while normal hydrogen has only a proton.

However, even that ginormous difference still shows about three times the amount of deuterium than we see on our planet.

Then, for a considerably higher price, he would undertake to collect a sample of the deuterium they were using.

Well, heavy water is made of one atom of oxygen plus two atoms of deuterium, which is the first isotope of hydrogen.

From that, they extracted the ratio of the number of deuterium atoms to the number of hydrogen atoms.

One chemical test involves measuring the relative amount of deuterium in water.

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