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How Heavy Water is made?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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You cant make heavy water in a normal home or lab you need to have very specilized equpiment for example huge electromagnets nuetron guns which is probably worth over $100,000 , take the easy option and buy it froma chemical supplier for example Sigma Aldrich

Multiple stage cascade electrolytic isotope enrichment. However the electricity cost to power the cascade will be much higher than the cost of equipment, unless you build right next to a very large hydroelectric plant and convince them to sell electricity to you at well below wholesale.

No electromagnets or neutron guns required.

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Heavy water is made by continuous electrolysis of water. eventually when all the water is separated into oxygen and hydrogen, otherwise known as Hydroxygas/Brown's Gas, The heavy water is left over because the atoms are harder to break apart whereas the H20 is broken up into a gas form. This process is way too expensive, uses up tonnes of energy and you'll be questioned about its use because it can be used in nuclear weapons.

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Water is H2O; two hydrogen atoms plus one oxygen atom. Normal hydrogen has one proton, one electron, and NO neutrons.

"Heavy water" is water with one hydrogen atom, one deuterium atom, and one oxygen atom. Deuterium is heavy hydrogen, with one proton, one electron and one neutron, so "heavy water" is heavier by the mass of one neutron. It occurs naturally, with about 1.1% of all hydrogen atoms being "heavy" with an extra neutron.

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it is made out of acid and fish gut that has been blenderized

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Multiple stage cascade electrolytic isotope enrichment.

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Its not created, its already in natural water. It just needs to be enriched in an electrolytic enrichment plant.

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