A chemical called deuterium is a heavier version of hydrogen. From Wordnik.com. [Mars Today Top Stories] Reference
The fuel for Iter is two heavy isotopes of hydrogen called deuterium and tritium. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
And the principal fuel, a heavy isotope of hydrogen called deuterium, is present in ordinary water, of which there is no shortage. From Wordnik.com. [Wasting Money on Fusion | Impact Lab] Reference
The main source of energy for both plasma and cold fusion appears to be deuterium, which is present in small concentration in all water. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Even cool-sounding 'deuterium' and 'titanium' had a sci-fi quality to them. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
And if it's deuterium it might help against radiation. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
(That's why the hydrogen isotope deuterium makes "heavy water."). From Wordnik.com. [Chemist Spins His Cyclotron to Create Impossibly Heavy Metals] Reference
You must remove the deuterium filter to expose the stepping disc. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
They're lower than they thought on plain old deuterium inventory. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
"Gamma rays could have set off fusion in the deuterium," Tiny Pelz said. From Wordnik.com. [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference
'I did some revision techniques on deuterium moderators,' Kuznetski said. From Wordnik.com. [The Kobra Manifesto]
Only a breath of gas remained of a half-kilometer sphere of deuterium ice. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
The ramscoop required a mix of deuterium and other isotopes to begin the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
Primary ignition system unbalanced, deuterium loop reaching critical overload!. From Wordnik.com. [A King of Infinite Space]
In May 2008Arata-Yang demonstrated the effect repeatedly using Pd and deuterium. From Wordnik.com. [Will 2010 be the Year of Zero Point Energy?] Reference
She again worked on isotopes, initially measuring the deuterium content of water. From Wordnik.com. [Mildred Cohn.] Reference
Because of the deuterium, it slows down some chemical reactions, notably cell division. From Wordnik.com. [Eleventh Hour: It Ain’t Heavy. It’s My Water.] Reference
Someone will build a miniaturized device to separate heavy water or deuterium from water. From Wordnik.com. [The Consequences of Clean Cold Fusion by Martin L. Buchanan] Reference
So maybe they scooped methane snow off a moon and refined deuterium and tritium out of it. From Wordnik.com. [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference
The freed-up deuterons joined up with those in a solid deuterium "'target" inside the device. From Wordnik.com. [Tapping the Force of Fusion, Again] Reference
If you add a neutron - that has no electrical charge - to the hydrogen atom, you get deuterium. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
"I detached an intact deuterium filter from the probe Teela later destroyed," the Hindmost said. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
And Louis nestled in the probe, in the gap where the deuterium filter had been, like an egg in an egg cup. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
The cannon could put oxygenated explosive into the deuterium tank, but only if the engines were shut down. From Wordnik.com. [New Race] Reference
Lancer's fusion motors could burn the deuterium, as backup to the reactions that ran in the ramscoop drive. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
While they were climbing, its laser was zapping ten times a second, igniting the merest whiff of deuterium fuel. From Wordnik.com. [A Meeting with Medusa]
The electrolyte is a mixture of 160 g deuterium oxide (D O) plus various metal salts in 0.2 g amounts each: FeSO. From Wordnik.com. [His Watery Beer] Reference
In a few months NIF will move to a more potent fuel capsule that contains tritium and just a tiny bit of deuterium. From Wordnik.com. [Could This Lump Power the Planet?] Reference
It would bob to the surface of the lake, be snagged ashore, and a mass spectrometer would separate out the rare deuterium. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
A fusion power plant would likely be fueled by deuterium and tritium, both isotopes of hydrogen that are in plentiful supply. From Wordnik.com. [Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists] Reference
Engineers never handled cargo; the only work they did in port was to load tritium and deuterium, or other tasks strictly theirs. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Of The Galaxy]
These were fueled with natural uranium and moderated with "heavy water," that is, with water made with deuterium instead of hydrogen. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
But instead of splitting the nucleus of an atom, you're trying to force a deuterium nucleus to merge, or fuse, with a tritium nucleus. From Wordnik.com. [Could This Lump Power the Planet?] Reference
We built the dams and rerouted the rivers and distilled fresh water for deuterium for the fusion plants and sent the excess water onward. From Wordnik.com. [A World Out of Time]
Finally, I physically removed the explosive charges that would have compressed the deuterium/tritium mix and vented the fuel into vacuum. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
In the third process, which is called a "neutrino elastic scattering," the incoming neutrino bounces off the electron of a deuterium atom. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
NIF fires the laser only a few times a day, and scientists are blasting capsules that contain just a tiny bit of deuterium and no tritium. From Wordnik.com. [Could This Lump Power the Planet?] Reference
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