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From the Vault: Heavy Water

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What Would the Ocean Be Like if It Were Made Out of Heavy Water?

This question originally showed up as a quora question. It's one of those thought experiment scenarios that i think helps to underline what we're talking about here with heavy water and how it affects, it would affect ba unovarious systems. If the ocean is suddenly about ten % heavier at the molecular level, the pressure at the bottom of the ocean would also be a lot higher. But this just means everything, these sort of things would be a far more exaggerated y.

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