Sentences with phrase «deuterium oxide»

They were able to get further information about the amino acids involved by using a combination of deuterium oxide, or heavy water, and normal water as a solvent.

Nuclear reactors often use deuterium oxide to control reactions, because the liquid slows down neutrons without capturing many.

Not exact matches

Yamaguchi believes that deuterium ions migrate towards the palladium oxide surface of the plate because of differences in temperature and density.

PHWRs are similar to PWRs, but use raw uranium rather than enriched uranium oxide as fuel, and deploy heavy water — in which hydrogen is replaced by deuterium — as both moderator and coolant.

Variations of deuterium (δD; black), a proxy for local temperature, and the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases CO2 (red), CH4 (blue), and nitrous oxide (N2O; green) derived from air trapped within ice cores from Antarctica and from recent atmospheric measurements (Petit et al., 1999; Indermühle et al., 2000; EPICA community members, 2004; Spahni et al., 2005; Siegenthaler et al., 2005a, b).

The black line shows a proxy for local temperature (deuterium), the green line is nitrous oxide, the red line is CO2, the blue line is methane, and the gray line is a proxy for land ice (low = more glaciers / larger ice caps).