HEAVY HYDROGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heavy hydrogen mean? 

• HEAVY HYDROGEN (noun)
  The noun HEAVY HYDROGEN has 1 sense:

1. an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen)

  Familiarity information: HEAVY HYDROGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAVY HYDROGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

deuterium; heavy hydrogen

Hypernyms ("heavy hydrogen" is a kind of...):

isotope (one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons)

hydrogen atom (an atom of hydrogen)

 Context examples 

A derivative of the amino acid histidine labeled with heavy hydrogen (D) used in diagnostic procedures.

(Deuterated 3-Methylhistidine, NCI Thesaurus)