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About a year ago I was using ~100% pure heavy water in an experiment.
Curious about the taste, I put several drops of it into my mouth.
Obviously, the D2O is not highly toxic. I had no reason to suspect
that D2O might be toxic.
Ludwik
On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:34 PM, John SOHL wrote:
In BC's original reply there was a link below the D2O statement (see
Bill's note below):
http://www.isb.vt.edu/brarg/brasym96/kushner96.htm
In that paper there is the statement:
**
Since this conference is largely concerned with the risks of
releasing different substances into the environment, it should be
stated at the beginning that D2O itself poses little such risk--so
long as it has not been used in nuclear reactors. As will be seen
below, D2O itself is not toxic to animals, except under exceptional
and very improbable circumstances.
**
This matches my understanding and I'm assuming Bill Nettles'
understanding. The paper does go on to note that in nuclear reactors
the D changes to T which is radioactive and is thus a clear risk.
As far as I know, the biggest risk in drinking D2O is to your
pocketbook.
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Ludwik Kowalski, a retired physics teacher and an amateur journalist.
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