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- From: jtwarden@rpi.edu (Joseph Warden)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: Heavy water separation
- Message-ID: <jtwarden-151192162455@mac4.chem.rpi.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 21:29:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mac4.jtwarden-151192162455
- References: <1992Nov3.180908.24563@kth.se> <1992Nov4.140347.179@physc1.byu.edu> <HPV.92Nov5122436@kelvin.uio.no> <1992Nov9.023243.20791@isus.UUCP>
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- In article <1992Nov9.023243.20791@isus.UUCP>, hoyt@isus.UUCP (Hoyt A.
- Stearns jr.) wrote:
- >
- > So maybe it would be feasible to accomodate some bacteria to D20, and use
- > them to somehow separate D20, perhaps by extracting the bacteria from soln,
- > and pressing.
- >
-
- Growth of bacteria as well as algae in D2O has been carried out
- commercially for a number of years. MSD in Quebec markets deuterated
- compounds derived from perdeuterated algae. The pioneering studies
- in algae by the Argonne group (Katz, Crespi, Daboll..) made such
- large scale growth practical. Growth of deuterated algae is not
- difficult if one is careful - cultures that I started at the
- University of Western Ontario were maintained for years after I
- departed.
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