Monday, December 24, 2018

hydrogen - Normal and heavy water mixing


This question seems silly, but this just came in my mind while i was learning about hydrogen.


Means will there be any reaction when HX2O will be mixed with DX2O?




Answer



Yes, a reaction known as "hydrogen exchange" will take place. When HX2O and DX2O (heavy water) are mixed, hydrogen exchange will take place rapidly to form HDO as a third component of the mixture. Depending on the initial amounts of HX2O and DX2O added, a statistical mixture of the 3 compounds will result. So if you mixed equal amounts of the HX2O and DX2O, then you would wind up with something around a 1:2:1 (it won't be exactly 1:2:1 due to the effect of the slightly different stabilities of the 3 compounds - see LDC3's comment) mixture of HX2O, HDO and DX2O.


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