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223: Oppenheimer & The Science of Atomic Bombs

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The Isotope of an Elements

So hydrogen is just a proton and an electron. There's no neutral at all. And then if you add a neutron to hydrogen, so you have a propton and a neutron and an electron, you then get deuterium. And it's basically just heavy isotopes of elements. So if you make water with heavy hydrogen, you get heavy water. That and it's heavy because the neutrons have mass.

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