What is the difference between water and heavy water?
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Heavy water is also water, but it contains a higher proportion of the hydrogen isotope – deuterium. Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom makes a water molecule. Deuterium is very much the same as that of normal hydrogen, but contains an extra neutron.
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water is made up of protium whose composition is H2O
while heavy water is made up of deuterium having same composition but different isotope of hydrogen D2O
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