The main through chemical techniques through distillation. It's making the same molecule as a regular H2O because it's chemistry is the same. Deuterium is a much more complicated story because it doesn't occur in a natural process except that extremely low a bonus is like 10 minus 18, which is basically not existent. Our current supply of tritium release generated as a byproduct in traditional nuclear reactors.
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