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Makes me want to go to the ocean and start filtering out water somehow.
by BizarroLand 2mo ago
Makes me want to go to the ocean and start filtering out water somehow.
- delecti 2mo agoThere are a variety of ways to do it, but you'd want to be careful that you don't attract attention from your local nuclear regulatory agency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Production_methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Production_methods
- inigyou 2mo agoYou can centrifuge it. Heavier molecules move closer to the bottom. Repeat until you reach the desired purity. You need shitloads of ordinary water to extract a liter of heavy water. And I'd be surprised if there's any superheavy water in that, because tritium radioactively decays. Fun fact: Heavy water is slightly toxic to humans. If you only drank heavy water, you'd die as it shifts the chemical reactions in your body out of balance. A moderate amount is fine though.
- danbruc 2mo agoAnother fun fact - heavy water has a sweet taste.
- bell-cot 2mo agoIIR, a number of rich & famous people have developed severe mercury poisoning after extended conspicuous consumption of swordfish and other very expensive/very contaminated seafood. Obviously the luxury bottled water industry is missing out on the potential of D2O and T2O.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2mo agoEmphasis on the slightly. I believe it would take weeks of only consuming heavy water. You could certainly drink a single glass of it without ill effects.
- fnord77 2mo agothey're making medicines now with deuterium to alter the half-life
- woadwarrior01 2mo agoDeuterium or tritium? Deuterium is a stable isotope and does not decay.
- inigyou 2mo agoProbably deuterium. Half-life doesn't only mean radioactive decay, it also means the rate at which a medication is broken down or excreted from the body. Tritium is more likely to be used as a radioactive tracer.