The Scientists Who Drank Heavy Water To See What It Tasted Like

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https://www.iflscience.com/the-scientists-who-drank-heavy-water-to-see-what-it-tasted-like-78217

Que goûte l’eau lourde ?

Neither of us could detect the slightest difference between the taste of ordinary distilled water and the taste of pure heavy water," Urey and Failla wrote of the experiment. "It might be mentioned in this connection that one cubic centimeter of water is not too small an amount to taste properly, since both of us could detect plainly the characteristic 'flat' taste of distilled water in both cases. It may be concluded, therefore, that pure deuterium oxide has the same taste as ordinary distilled water."

En gros : rien.

D’ailleurs, le corps humain contient plusieurs grammes d’eau lourde (enfin, semi-lourde) : https://couleur-science.eu/?d=b7897d--quest-ce-que-leau-lourde

Et le deutérium n’est pas tellement rare : un atome d’hydrogène sur 3 200 est du deutérium. C’est pas comme si c’était une petite fraction d’une mole, par exemple.