[Rockhounds] Heavy Water in the Bucket (OT)

[Axel Emmermann]

Because of the shorter half life of 12.3 years? It is highly radioactive!

Cheers
Axel

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> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Heavy Water in the Bucket (OT)
> 
> There is also semi-heavy water, DHO, which makes ice that floats.
> 
> And then we get into the radioactive Tritium, which makes really heavy
> water, with a molar mass of 22.0315. I was unable to find a supplier of
> Tritiated water.
> 
> Kreigh
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, Jan 16, 2009, at 20:49 America/Detroit, Pmodreski at aol.com
> wrote:
> 
> > So, all this heavy water & light ice stuff, inspired me to go look up
> > the
> > properties of heavy water (pure D2O).
> >
> > 1.1056 g/mL, liquid (20°C)
> > 1.0177 g/cm3, solid (at  m.p.)
> >
> > so, heavy water is about 10% denser than ordinary H2O, and I see that
> > D2O
> > "ice" (heavy ice?), at 1.0177 g/cc, is denser than liquid water; SO,
> > if you drop
> >  a cube of D2O into ordinary water, it will sink!  Wouldn't that be an
> > interesting demonstration?  (Probably a little expensive to do; I
> > wonder,  what's
> > the market price of pure heavy water?  Because of its nuclear uses,  I
> > suspect
> > it's a "controlled substance", except in very dilute form.
> >
> > Now for my OT P.S., to your Hole in the Bucket, I have never been much
> > good
> > on any kind of pop music knowledge.  To me, the "Hole in the Bucket"
> > song was
> > just something we sang as kids in music class at school.  But I  must
> > say
> > that the Harry B. rendition rang no bells for me; what did stick in my
> >  mind was,
> > I thought, Burl Ives singing it--so I looked that up online, and sho'
> > nuff,
> > he did record it too.
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/16/2009 4:55:34 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> > kahako at hawaiiantel.net writes:
> >
> > Ahhh  yes.  "There's a Hole in the Bucket."  The version with Harry
> > Belefonte as "Henry" and Odetta as "Liza" is my favorite, from 1960.
> > You can goodle or wikipedia it and get the full lyrics.
> >
> > Aloha,  Kitty
> >
> > Axel Emmermann wrote:
> >> Ice is lighter than water but the  specific gravity of water peaks at
> >> 4°C.
> > If
> >> you get a bucket of water  then make sure it is at 4 degrees celcius.
> >> At
> > that
> >> temperature you'll  get the most in your bucket.
> >>
> >> There's a hooooole in my bucket,  dear Lisa.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Axel
> >>
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