🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

deutéré

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dø.te.ʁe

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Deuterated/ˈduː.tə.reɪ.tɪd/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"On a utilisé un solvant deutéré pour cette expérience."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Having one or more hydrogen atoms in a chemical compound replaced by deuterium.

    "The researchers used deuterated chloroform as a solvent for the NMR spectroscopy analysis."
As verb
  1. 1

    Past tense and past participle of 'deuterate', meaning to introduce deuterium into a chemical compound.

    "The chemists deuterated the organic molecule to study its reaction mechanisms more closely."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from 'deuterium', which stems from the Greek 'deuteros' meaning 'second', reflecting the isotope's mass position relative to protium. Coined in the 20th century following the discovery of heavy hydrogen to describe chemical compounds in which normal hydrogen atoms are replaced by deuterium.

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