heavy water

Questions about heavy water

What is another word for heavy water?

It depends which heavy water you mean. In the sense “water containing a substantial proportion of deuterium atoms, used in nuclear reactors”, the synonyms are deuterium oxide. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of heavy water?

WordNet records no antonym for heavy water. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for heavy water come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of heavy water

• Full entry for heavy waterAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for heavy waterWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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