 Centrifuge for getting Deuterium?
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Backyard Skunkworks
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Sun Mar 16 2008, 07:21PM
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If you had a centrifuge containing hydrogen gas, wouldn’t the heavier deuterium begin to concentrate on the walls? If you had like a thousand liters of hydrogen, wouldn’t this begin to produce a noticeable/usable amount of deuterium?
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DrZoidberg
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If the centrifuge is spinning fast enough. Centrifuges are used to enrich uranium so they would probably also work for deuterium. But there are more efficient ways.
Here is a description of how deuterium is enriched.
But I don't think you'll be able to do that at home.
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