From the Vault: Heavy Water
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Heavy Water - The Mythic Hero
Hevishy, the mythic hero of "The Godfather," also ties into heavy water. He was pursuing his radioactive tracer experiments with plants to learn how elements from the soil are metabolized in plant bodies. At the time, they did not know of a way to do this with water molecules. A couple of decades later, chemistry would come around with an answer by harold a ury,. which we talked about previously, ofHeavy Water.
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