On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:51:32 GMT, Steve Hay
<hays@nospam.alum.rpspami.edu> wrote:
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>dechucka wrote:
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>> "Steve Hay" <hays@nospam.alum.rpspami.edu> wrote in message[color=darkred]
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>>>1 part hydrogen, 8 parts oxygen.[/color]
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>> that must be the heavy water they were using in WW2 to produce "the bomb"
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>AMU of Oxygen is 16; AMU of Hydrogen is 1. :)[/color]
Ture but no correct, unless you are counting by mass only. It takes
the full complent of protons and neutrons to make oxygen, otherwise
you would have several extra hydrogen and a few spare neutrons laying
about, but a good joke anyway, thanks