How Many Waters Are There on Earth!

[LazyLion]

http://www.todayinsci.com/stories/story017.htm

Three isotopes of hydrogen have been found by scientists in nature, and each of them can combine with oxygen. Hence, one may speak of three kinds of water: protium, deuterium, and tritium waters: H2O, D2O and T2O, respectively.

There may also be "mixed" waters containing, say, an atom of protium and an atom of deuterium, or an atom of deuterium and one of tritium in their molecules. This increases the list of waters: HDO, HTO, and DTO.

But the oxygen contained in the water is also a mixture of three isotopes: oxygen-16, oxygen-17 and oxygen-18, the first being by far the most common. Taking into account these varieties of oxygen, another 12 possible waters can be added to the list.

When you draw a cup of water from a lake or river, you probably never suspect that you have in your cup eighteen different kinds of water. And so water, no matter where it comes from, is a mixture of different molecules, the lightest being H2O16 and heaviest, T2O18. Chemists can now prepare each of these eighteen kinds of water in the pure form.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

Will any one of these give me super powers?

 

[warchylde]

Will any one of these give me super powers?

+1

 

[Pitbull]

lol, when I read the heading I said 3 (Salt, fresh, Brakish) thus is was right in a manner of speaking

 

[Creag]

So its that why you never get the same level of satisfaction from each cup?

Seriously that's mind-blowing. Who would have thought it.

 

[Picard]

How will it taste with Oros?

 

[scotty777]

Will any one of these give me super powers?

Well, Tritium is radioactive... drink some of that and you might become one?

 

[waynegohl]

will i notice the difference when i mix them with AANMAAK syrup to make colddrink?

 

[zulgin]

How will it taste with Oros?

soos enige iets met oros -k@k.

 

[satanboy]

Isn't Oros made from Teletubby pee?

 

[zulgin]

Isn't Oros made from Teletubby pee?

"Tarzan piss"

 

[TheGuy]

soos enige iets met oros -k@k.

Oros is lekker man. Hoekom is dit dan vir so lank all op die rakke

 

[davemc]

Interesting, so I should go to a water bottling company and demand some H2O16!
YEA!

 

[Nothxkbi]

Interesting, so I should go to a water bottling company and demand some H2O16!
YEA!

You just put a picture in my head of walking into Spar and buying a bottle of Valpre Heavy Water

 

[werries2]

H2O16 does not exists H2O Is still the chemical formula for all the water isotopes. The 2 refers to two Hydrogen atoms.
Though D and T can be used (and is used) for the Hydrogen isotopes.