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Subject: Can death result from drinking a glass of heavy water?

Date: Sun Aug 15 00:44:13 1999
Posted by Wong Chun Ming
Grade level: 10-12 School: Ngee Ann Secondary School
City: No city entered. State/Province: No state entered. Country: Singapore
Area of science: Physics
ID: 934692253.Ph
Message:

For example, if the hydrogens are replaced by heavy hydrogen - the isotope 
called hydrogen-2 or deuterium - the resulting heavy water behaves in some 
respects like a different molecule altogether.
Is the above statement true?
I always think that all isotop of hydrogen is has the same properties 
except thw mass until I read this passage(link is below).
Please refer to the last paragraph at 
http://helix.nature.com/nsu/981217/981217-1.html
for the actual passage.


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