From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 00:48:28 MST
AFAIK, work done in the early to mid 1960s suggested that toxic effects in
animals showed up when approximately 1/5 of the H in the organism had been
replaced with D. Drinking _deionized_ plain H20 would probably hurt you
faster.
Reason wrote:
>
> --> John Clark
>
> > spike66 <spike66@attglobal.net> Wrote:
> >
> > >I might also collect deuterium free water
> >
> > Deuterium is not radioactive, it's perfectly stable.
>
> I recall my school textbooks claiming heavy water was toxic. Going out
> googling produces some fun contradictory back-and-forth references for that.
> Anyone want to provide a clear oracle for the toxicity or otherwise of D2O?
>
> Reason
> http://www.exratio.com/
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