Heavy water is H20 but the 2 hydrogens have neutrons, usually the hydrogens have none. Can u drink it and still be ok?
2006-08-23 16:09:43 · 12 answers · asked by drewsifer06 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
yes, you can drink it, if you just drank a glass of it, it wouldnt have that much effect. if you were to drink only heavy water all the time, it would cause all kinds of problems and kill you.
2006-08-23 16:12:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Water would have to be specially prepared to exclude all heavy water. There are fairly consistent (temperature-variant) proportions from one sample to another of heavy water to non. (Deuterium/protium ratio) Tritium, with 2 neutrons, would have already decayed most likely (decay is a probabilistic event, after all), but there are isotopes of oxygen that exist in various proportions (O-16 being most abundant) - so exceedingly small quantities would exist with both rare species occurring together - 18-weight oxygen (instead of 16-weight) combined with - yes, two atoms of deuterium having a total molecular weight of 22 (18 + (2 x 2)) instead of 18 (16 + 1 + 1). So, you've already consumed mass quantities of heavy water - are you still ok?
2006-08-23 16:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can. It is also composed of hydrogen and oxygen. Only molecular scientists care about the differences between heavy water and normal water.
2006-08-23 16:44:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Sure! Your body should not notice the difference in weight of the additional neutrons. If fact you drink some every day.
2006-08-23 16:13:17 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is toxic to human only under large consumption. Here is a link on heavy water and heavy oxygen.
It also explain the mechanism of why it is toxic to human.
2006-08-23 16:18:17 · answer #5 · answered by galactic_man_of_leisure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the city my aunt lives in, the water smells like eggs, because it has alot of sulfur in it, and everyone there seems to be normal, so if it doesn;t small that bad, must be ok, but i wouldn't drink that water, i stick to dasani!
2006-08-23 16:16:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will cause death after about 2 weeks of drinking nothing but heavy water but in small doses its pretty much harmless
2006-08-23 16:18:06 · answer #7 · answered by Austin Powers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. You wouldn't know the difference
2006-08-23 16:10:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
heavy water is nuclear - you do the math.
2006-08-23 16:14:58 · answer #9 · answered by tecsklls9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe
2006-08-23 16:15:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋