"Steve Hay" <hays@nospam.alum.rpspami.edu> wrote in message
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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[/color][/color]
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> > :-)[/color]
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> AMU of Oxygen is 16; AMU of Hydrogen is 1. :)[/color]

and I stupidly thought it took 1 part of oxygen to 2 parts of hydrogen to
make water, there goes all that time studying chemistry at Uni.