"Steve Hay" <hays@nospam.alum.rpspami.edu> wrote in message
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> 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[/color][/color][/color]
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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[/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. :)[/color]

I would! H20 = water, 2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom = water, mass
has nothing to do with it.

I agree with you mass ratios but so what?