How to Use heavy water in a Sentence

heavy water

noun
  • Now, here's what heavy water is.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • My arms keep pulling, through the heavy water, through the air.
    — Peter Rock, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The ants pouring out of the sink, onto my arms in dish heavy water.
    — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The key part of the heavy water plant was in the basement of this enormous fortress of steel and stone.
    — National Geographic, 5 June 2016
  • The heavy water falls, dragging some of the surrounding water with it.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Lost lots of shingles, heavy water damage in ceilings, walls, our deck is destroyed.
    — Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Having a fast, non-invasive method such as heavy water tracing would be a great economic boon.
    — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
  • Solar evaporation can take up to two years and requires dry climates, flat land, and heavy water use.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The Dutch government has tiptoed around raising prices for heavy water users, wary of a backlash.
    — Raymond Zhong, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Alkins said units on the third, fourth, and fifth floors sustained heavy water damage and the entire building was affected by the smoke.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
  • Venus’s overabundance of heavy water is thought to be the dregs from an ocean’s worth of normal water that once graced the planet untold eons ago.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
  • At the time of the sample collection, Rosetta had been flying through dust that contained heavy water.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2026
  • No planets have yet been detected in that disk, although any comets that may have formed already will mirror this high ratio of heavy water.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Fairley and his team added heavy water to several of Yellowstone’s hot springs and tracked the rate at which its amount decreased over time.
    — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
  • So over millions of years, this process of water formation tends to concentrate deuterium in heavy water.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Such reactors use heavy water as a coolant and produce plutonium as a waste product, which can be used in nuclear weapons.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • Like ordinary water, heavy water pairs two hydrogen atoms with one oxygen atom to make each molecule of moisture.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
  • During that event, students will walk around the campus to see how heavy water feels when carrying it for long distances, Merlo said.
    — Julianna Lozada, Daily News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Its rarity made heavy water the Achilles’ heel of the German nuclear bomb program.
    — Timothy J. Jorgensen, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The partners worked on pairing fibers and constructions with wash techniques that do not require heavy water and chemical resources.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In the right balance, nuclear fuel and heavy water create steam, electricity, and light.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Perhaps most alarming is the heavy water usage, with wells dug to mix vast quantities of cement, leading to the depletion of aquifers and rare desert springs.
    — John Washington, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • To test these theories, astronomers like me look at the ratio between normal water and a special kind of water called semi-heavy water.
    — John Tobin, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, the samples weighed in with about 25 percent less heavy water compared with normal water — far less than expected.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Three apartments remain unoccupied and probably will be for some time due to heavy water damage and some fire damage, Lenzi said.
    — Jim Newton, Lake County News-Sun, 16 May 2018
  • Shoshone Falls, which boasted some of the heaviest water flows in years this spring, came roaring back to life on the Snake River this week.
    — Christina Lords, idahostatesman, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The release said there was fire damage to the office, smoke damage to the eighth and ninth floors, minor water damage to the seventh floor and heavy water damage to the eighth floor.
    — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Some researchers tried giving heavy water to growing pigs and found that those who ate diets very high in carbs incorporated some of the heavy hydrogen as lipids in their body fat.
    — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The barges, along with trees and branches and a heavy water flow pushed one of them down the river to Harpers Ferry, in West Virginia.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 8 May 2022
  • The Sacramento region, where lawns are big and summers are hot, traditionally has been one of the heaviest water users in the state.
    — Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 15 Mar. 2018

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