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deuterium
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deuterium /deu·te·ri·um/ (D) (doo-ter´e-um) see hydrogen.
deu·te·ri·um (d-tîr-m)
n.
An isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron in the nucleus having an atomic weight of 2.014. Also called heavy hydrogen, hydrogen-2.
deuterium
(dootēr´ēm), a stable isotope of the hydrogen atom, used as a tracer. Also called
heavy hydrogen. Deuterium oxide, or heavy water, is formed from an isotope of hydrogen, which has twice the weight of ordinary hydrogen (hence the name).
deuterium
the mass 2 isotope of hydrogen, symbol 2H or D; it is available as a gas or heavy water and is used as a tracer or indicator in studying metabolism.
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Use of a tensor polarized deuteron target avoids the 1/A suppression, and a test using a few hundred MeV polarized proton beam is planned for the COoler SYnchrotron storage ring facility (COSY) at the Institut fur Kernphysik (IKP) Juelich, Germany by the Time Reversal Invariance Test at COSY collaboration (TRIC).
Bounds on time reversal violation from polarized neutron capture with ... by Sharapov, E.I. / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
To sort out what was happening, the RHIC teams turned to the less energetic collisions between gold ions and deuterons.
Has matter's mother paid a call? (Hot Mama) by Weiss, P. / Science News
corpuscular radiation such as alpha- and beta-radiation, high energy electrons, protons, deuterons and neutrons.
Electron beam curing of EPDM by Gehring, J. / Rubber World
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