Heavy water is water formed using higher proportions of deuterium and tritium, unstable and heavier isotopes of hydrogen, for ease of storage of those particles before use in nuclear reactions.
Same as heavy water now: D2O
In WW2 German scientists working on military uses of nuclear energy had made a mistake in measuring the neutron capture crosssection of graphite and decided it was not a usable moderator (material to slow energetic fission neutrons to thermal energies) for a reactor, instead they turned to heavy water. This was a serous mistake in wartime as there was only one plant in the world at the time that produced it in industrial quantity, Norsk Hydro in Norway, and the production costs are high. Graphite can be made almost anywhere and is cheap to produce.
The Allies repeated attacked the Norsk Hydro plant, slowing production and eventually forcing Germany to attempt to move it to Germany. However Norwegian Partisans sank the Ferry carrying these materials with a planted bomb (resulting in significant Norwegian loss of life as well as the Heavy Water and equipment).
The Manhattan Project used Graphite in their early test reactors and plutonium production reactors and had produced almost enough plutonium for the Trinity test bomb before Germany surrendered, and by July 1945 enough for at least 3 MK-III Fatman bombs: Trinity, Nagasaki, and one that was assembled but not used due to the Japanese surrender.
The German nuclear project still had yet to build their first Heavy Water test reactor and had not begun serious bomb design work at all by the time Germany surrendered. Some scholars speculate that Werner Heisenberg (leader of the German project) did not even understand the possibility of deliverable fission bombs until he read the British newspapers on the bombs dropped on Japan, but figured out how to make them the same day.
The Japanese nuclear project was even further behind: they were still just trying to build large cyclotrons to measure crosssections with. Even a small test reactor was years in the future.
Pure heavy water is practically not conductive.
No heavy water in the muffler.
Heavy water is used in making hydrogen bombs.
Heavy water is water with some gases extracted.if you put it in a barrel and put the barrel in water the barrel would sink.Theonly reason Hitler wanted heavy water was because heavy water is used in atomic bombs.the only place he could get the heavy water was Norway. fortunately the Brit's blew up the only cargo ship carrying the heavy water back to Germany...some heavy water is lost in a lake somewhere in norway...lost in time forever.
The chemical formula of heavy water is D2O.
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there were 6,289,000 Americans in combat.
Britain and France and Italy.
may 1,1939 to august 31,1945
300.000 dead and a similar number wounded
this name was given to the annihilation of the Jewish people during WW ll
Yes. She and her husband worked with the OSS during WW ll.
broke ww
It is a bit a matter of opinion but two front runners would be the Great Depression and the rise of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler.
Germany invaded Poland, causing Britain to declare war on the 3rd of September 1939.
Immediately after ww2 car manufactors started to make them but they were slow coming out at first.