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Deuterium Oxide

"Deuterium Oxide" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The isotopic compound of hydrogen of mass 2 (deuterium) with oxygen. (From Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed) It is used to study mechanisms and rates of chemical or nuclear reactions, as well as biological processes.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Deuterium Oxide" by people in this website by year, and whether "Deuterium Oxide" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 7 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1996 and 1997 and 1999 and 2000 and 2001 and 2007 and 2015
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