Sentence examples for heavy water from inspiring English sources
noun
Water containing deuterium instead of normal hydrogen (symbol D2O); used as a moderator in nuclear reactors.
Heavy water is expensive.
"They said Arak can stay, but no heavy water reactors.
Heavy Water: And Other Stories By Martin Amis.
Until then, heavy water users are holding their breath.
Iran will not build a new heavy water reactor.
Their system consisted of electrolytic cells containing heavy water (deuterium oxide, D2O) and palladium rods that absorbed the deuterium from the heavy water.
In 1955 Canada offered to build India a heavy water research reactor, and the United States supplied some of the heavy water.
The oxide-heavy water — iridescent red-orange, like molten lava — glowed against the black earth.
Or was it the heavy-water reactor at Arak?
Iran has also agreed not to commission its heavy-water reactor in Arak.
The international community, however, refuses to help build a heavy-water reactor.
