Re: Deuterium Oxide 100%

["Charles Meyer" <cmeyer@brc1.tdh.state.tx.us>]

> Date:          Thu, 6 Nov 1997 11:31:33 -0600 (CST)
> Reply-to:      radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> From:          mdater@nexstar.com
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject:       Deuterium Oxide 100%

> 
> Hello,
> We have a local chemical waste vender who wonders if Deuterium Oxide
> contains 3H (Tritium) and is Radioactive.
> I have looked at the MSDS and do not see 3H listed. Question:
> Does Deuterium Oxide contain 3H and is it radioactive?
> Thank you,
> 
seems to me that if deuterium is separated by a method which takes 
advantage of its difference in mass from hydrogen and water is the 
source, that there would be some tritium also there.  I have seen a 
container of deuterium and it contained enough tritium that  it bore 
a radioactive label for shipment.  However, I don't know the source 
of the deuterium.
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