Sentences with phrase «deuterium instead»

Any planets that formed would have water made with deuterium instead of hydrogen, which is toxic to life in our universe.

Not exact matches

Finally, Webb will look at ratios of heavy water — water molecules that contain a deuterium atom instead of hydrogen — to water in the planet - forming disks, helping trace how the water formed and under what conditions.

The light oxygen with the deuterium can make it that far though and those ratios can be used instead of oxygen.