a new age kinda guy wrote:
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> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:51:32 GMT, Steve Hay
> <hays@nospam.alum.rpspami.edu> wrote:[/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]
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> 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[/color]

Not sure your point here; Oxygen has a mass number of 8 which
corresponds to 16 AMU's (8 protons, 8 neutrons). An average hydrogen
nucleus contains 1 proton and 0 neutrons.

Sure, you have some isotopes, and sure you even have some mass defect
effects going on due to the strong nuclear force, but all and all, I
think I'm right on this one, at least to the signifigant figures I
presented.

Otherwise, I might need to quit my day job. :)

Steve