why dueterium is a misnomer ?
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Hydrogen is the first element in the periodic table having atomic number 1. This means hydrogen has one proton in its nucleus. Deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen. Since isotopes are atoms of the same element having the same number of protons and different numbers of neutrons, both hydrogen and deuterium are composed of one proton per each nucleus. The main difference between Deuterium and Hydrogen is that Deuterium atoms contain a neutron in their nucleus whereas Hydrogen atoms do not contain any neutrons in their nucleus.
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