Drink heavy water?
There is occasional talk of heavy water in the media. If you don't know what this is about, you are probably wondering whether you can drink heavy water just like normal tap water.
Heavy water and its meaning
- Heavy water you probably haven't seen it yet. Although it occurs occasionally in nature, it cannot be differentiated. But if you accidentally drink it, it won't do much harm because it happens too rarely.
- Chemically, however, there is a difference between heavy and normal water. You may know the formula for normal water from your chemistry class; it is H2O. Heavy water has the formula D2O; the hydrogen atoms (H) have been exchanged for deuterium (D). Since deuterium has an additional neutron, the water is heavier than normal.
- As you probably know, water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius. Heavy water, however, already at 3.82 degrees.
- If you are dealing with heavy water one tea If you wanted to cook to drink it, you would need more energy, as heavy water only starts to boil at 101.42 degrees.
Drinking the special liquid?
- You shouldn't drink heavy water when you have something on hand.
- In theory, you can buy the water. However, it is very expensive at more than 80 euros per hundred grams, so that a cup of heavy water to drink costs around 160 euros.
- In well-heeled circles you allow yourself a party gag with heavy water by making ice cubes out of it, which are in the cola or alcoholic beverages perish. Since ice cubes made from conventional water do not go under, the astonishment is often great.
- However, you should not drink heavy water as it is slightly toxic.
- In animal experiments with mice it was found that the water reduces cell division. The mice suffered from a diseased gastric mucosa because it could not regenerate quickly enough. Theoretically, tumors could be stopped from growing, but because of the serious side effects, heavy water would not be used in cancer therapy.
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