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The Biology of Heavy Water

What happens to experimental organisms that have been raised on water in which the hydrogen is not the common isotope of mass one but the heavy isotope of mass two?

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 203 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “The Biology of Heavy Water” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 203 No. 1 (), p. 106
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0760-106