tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 09 15:00:01 1998
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Re: Klingon Bird of Prey (KBP) poster: THE TEXT!
I [Voragh] wrote:
>> nIn: bIQSIp 'ugh
>> Fuel - Deuterium Isotope
>
> {bIQSIp 'ugh} "heavy hydrogen" = deuterium (i.e. H2O2, "heavy water"). We
can
> now add {bIQSIp} "hydrogen" to {voQSIp} "nitrogen" and {yInSIp} "oxygen"
from
> S27.
Cmdr Scot Adams wrote:
>
> In the following, you refer to heavy water as H2O2. Actually, it would be
> more
> correct to say D2O, as H2O2 is Hydrogen Peroxide. Deuterium is as follows:
Thanks for the correction. Obviously, I should stick to what I know best -
and
that's NOT chemistry! Funny the bits of (mis)information that get stuck in
your brain. Perhaps I was misremembering 2H2O?
>
> Deuterium --
> The isotope of the element hydrogen with atomic weight 2.0144 and symbols 2H
> or
> D. The terrestrial natural abundance of deuterium is 1 part in 6700 parts
of
> ordinary hydrogen (protium). Deuterium is a gas (D2) at room temperature.
it
> is prepared from heavy water, D2O either by electrolysis or by reaction of
> D2O with metals such as zinc, iron, calcium, and uranium, It is also
prepared
> directly by the fractional distillation of liquid hydrogen.
>
> Deuterium is used mainly in the form of heavy water (again, D2O).
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Voragh "Grammatici certant et adhuc sub judice
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons lis est." Horace (Ars Poetica)