Urey, Brickwedde, and Murphy report their discovery of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen comprised of a proton and a neutron. Deuterium oxide, or “heavy water,” is later used during World War II in nuclear reactors. Today deuterium is widely used in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments, as well as in many chemistry and particle physics experiments.
Deuterium is one isotope of hydrogen, so what are isotopes?
And an experiment to make Deuterium:
