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Hello, Are there any other ways of producing/extracting deuterium besides electrolytis? The product should be of high concentration because it is meant for fusion energy. Thank you for your help Maurice Herp. (talk) 20:21, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The article could make mention of the 327-MHz deuterium hyperfine transition, particularly in an astronomy context (Cf. hydrogen line).[1][2] Thanks. Praemonitus (talk) 22:24, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that in the standard model, the deuteron is not completely stable, but rather very long lived. t'Hooft writes at the bottom of page 3 "Thus, because of the Cabibbo rotation, a proton and a neutron (two baryons equal six quarks) may annihilate to form two antileptons, one of electron and one of muon type. The factors exp(- 16pi /g^2) = exp(- 4pi * 137 * sin theta_W)"^[1] This calculation is elaborated here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/288913/10991 to conclude a lifetime of 10^180 seconds.

Would it make more sense for File:Deuterium discharage tube.jpg to be used as the lead image instead, or maybe along with, the isotope highlighted on the table of nuclides? After all, we don't just put images of elements highlighted on the periodic table for their lede sections. ✨ΩmegaMantis✨^blather 18:30, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

{{Infobox isotope}} does not seem to prescribe any standard for the image. Might be useful to ask Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements to coordinate this across the many such articles. DMacks (talk) 19:35, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

IUPAC recommends that the chemical symbol for deuterium should be ²H, rather than D. I strongly agree with that recommendation, for multiple reasons. This article should follow IUPAC's recommendation; for instance, writing ²H₂O rather than D₂O (see "Heavy water"). Solomonfromfinland (talk) 22:02, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]