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Deuterium-depleted water has less deuterium (2 H) than occurs in nature at sea level. [1] Deuterium is a naturally-occurring, stable (non-radioactive) isotope of hydrogen with a nucleus consisting of one proton and one neutron. A nucleus of normal hydrogen (protium, 1 H) consists of one proton only, and no neutron.
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Thus heavy water as defined by the Gold Book includes semiheavy water (hydrogen-deuterium oxide, HDO) and other mixtures of D 2 O, H 2 O, and HDO in which the proportion of deuterium is greater than usual. For instance, the heavy water used in CANDU reactors is a highly enriched water mixture that is mostly deuterium oxide D
Semiheavy water is the result of replacing one of the protium (normal hydrogen, 1 H) in normal water with deuterium (2 H; or less correctly [1], D). [2] It exists whenever there is water with 1 H and 2 H in the mix. This is because hydrogen atoms (1,2 H) are rapidly exchanged between water molecules.
A deuterated drug is a small molecule medicinal product in which one or more of the hydrogen atoms in the drug molecule have been replaced by its heavier stable isotope deuterium. Because of the kinetic isotope effect, deuterium-containing drugs may have significantly lower rates of metabolism, and hence a longer half-life. [1] [2] [3]
Deuterium occurs in trace amounts naturally as deuterium gas (2 H 2 or D 2), but most deuterium atoms in the Universe are bonded with 1 H to form a gas called hydrogen deuteride (HD or 1 H 2 H). [12] Similarly, natural water contains deuterated molecules, almost all as semiheavy water HDO with only one deuterium.
DLW ('tagged' water) is traceable hydrogen (deuterium), and traceable oxygen (18 O). The 18 O leaves the body in two ways: (i) exhaled CO 2, and (ii) water loss in (mostly) urine, sweat, and breath. But the deuterium leaves only in the second way (water loss). From deuterium loss, we know how much of the tagged water left the body as water.
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