I’ve just been swallowed by a rabbit hole on heavy hydrogen, the Norwegian hydro plant used to make fertiliser by splitting water and D being left behind, then them realising they could sell D₂O.
It being used in some medicines, and in semiconductor processes, then in preserving Blue OLED for longer.
DivingForGold•1d ago
from the article:
Stable, NON radioactive isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron in its nucleus.
Natural abundance of 0.015% of hydrogen atoms on Earth
gus_massa•6h ago
It looks interesting, but the article has too few details. Some more info in the first reference https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11936013/ Anyway, IIUC it discuss a research lab method, that may be hard to escale to factory production.
zeristor•1d ago
It being used in some medicines, and in semiconductor processes, then in preserving Blue OLED for longer.