How to Use deuterium in a Sentence

deuterium

noun

• The deuterium from a glass of water, with a little tritium added, could power a house for a year.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
• The isotopes butting heads will be deuterium and tritium.
  — Laura Mallonee, Wired, 21 Apr. 2020
• So can the frozen hydrogen inside, a mix of the isotopes deuterium and tritium.
  — David R Baker & Will Wade, oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2022
• The feather will be assayed for deuterium to add to a study of hydrogen isotopes and duck movements.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2021
• Plasma: Made up of two isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium), the plasma is the fuel that drives the fusion process.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
• One issue is that only one in 6,500 hydrogen atoms is a deuterium atom.
  — Yuen Yiu, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2020
• The fuels were deuterium and tritium, rare forms of hydrogen.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• According to Daly, the Sun has very low levels of heavy hydrogen called deuterium.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 Dec. 2021
• Webb is an ideal tool for such a search because the smallest stars—brown dwarfs, which emit light from the fusion of deuterium—are most visible in infrared light.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2023
• Thus, a relative dearth of deuterium in the atmosphere today suggests that less water may have been lost in this way than was thought.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
• The target itself is a tiny hollow shell filled with the heavy hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• The company makes deuterium compounds by extracting it from water and uses them in the diodes.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2021
• Meanwhile any object less than 13 Jupiter masses should fail to trigger deuterium fusion and thus would be a planet.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
• The 50 million watts is only the power supplied directly to the deuterium and tritium fuel.
  — Don Lincoln, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• Over time, as more and more hydrogen drifts away from the planet and more and more deuterium stays behind, the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen (D/H) slowly grows.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 Mar. 2021
• That eliminates the need to freeze the deuterium and tritium at ultralow temperatures.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Zap’s pulses start with a puff of deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen) plasma at one end of a meter-long vacuum tube, at the center of which is an electrode.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
• At what rate do the deuterium molecules absorb protons to become helium-3?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2020
• The setup was this: 192 lasers were aimed at a pea-sized gold cylinder, called a hohlraum, inside of which was a 2-millimeter pellet filled with deuterium and tritium (isotopes of hydrogen).
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2014
• Urey, of course, was a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered the isotopes of hydrogen, like deuterium, and so on.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2022
• But instead of hydrogen-boron, the company is placing its bets on a helium-3 and deuterium fuel cycle.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2023
• These bombard the tiny fuel pellet consisting of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, and crush it.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
• The tech can also work for hydrogen isotope fuels like deuterium-tritium, TAE says.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• Deuterium, which is an isotope of hydrogen, has a neutron in its nucleus.
  — National Geographic, 5 June 2016
• The process imploded a tiny capsule inside the hohlraum that is filled with deuterium and tritium, creating a fusion reaction.
  — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2022
• Fusion projects mainly use the elements deuterium and tritium – both of which are isotopes of hydrogen.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
• But in protoplanetary discs, the ratio of hydrogen to deuterium can reach about 100:1.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• The grim reality of fusion is that the world’s largest project, the ITER, will not be tested with deuterium and tritium fuel until 2035, and couldn’t produce any useful power for quite a few years after that.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2023
• No, not robots fashioned of these materials or a new form of nuclear fusion that uses dried out husks and leaves to spark the deuterium-tritium cycle.
  — Mark Anderson, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2007
• In any case, the reason to differentiate them isn't burning deuterium.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2018

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