how long would it take me to die if I drank nothing but Heavy Water?

Question

(dueterium) water....what about Superheavywater? (tritium) water?

Answer 1

Nobody did this experiment before, all I know is rules of 3:

3 minutes without air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food

Answer 2

Heavy water is not toxic. Considering that in the body, water is just a solvent and heavy water behaves the same as regular water, I'd say that you'd never notice the difference. If you went for an MRI though, the results might be a bit confusing because they rely on the fact that most hydrogens have only a single proton and MRI's need an odd number of nucleons to work.

Super heavy water is another story. Tritium is radioactive and consuming large amounts of super heavy water would surely kill you within days, but you would die from radiation poisoning, not dehydration.

Answer 3

About 2 weeks, mostly because it is less effective in the chemical reactions needed for cell division. Its chemical properties are similar to, but not identical to, regular water.

Tritiated water substitutes tritium for the hydrogen (or deuterium). Tritium has a half-life of around 12 years, so it is radioactive, but hot highly so. The regulatory limits for tritium in drinking water are determined by radiation limits, so that's probably the dominant damage mechanism for tritiated water.

Answer 4

Since it takes 2 to 3 weeks to die from just drinking regular, normal water, it would take 10 days to 2 weeks for severe poisoning and death. As far as superheavy water...probably about 7 to 12 days based on the difference in time between regular water and heavy water.

Answer 5

about two weeks, a coma for a week wherein intravenous feed of heavy-water for you would be no longer capable of drinking...liver damage is the principle of death due to toxic reaction of heavy-metal....

Answer 6

Try it and tell us.

Answer 7

why?