Gaseous Electronics

31

HEAVY WATER

CONTENTS

31.1 Selected References for Data

31.2 Ionization Cross Sections

31.3 Negative Ion Appearance Potentials

31.4 Electron Transport Data

31.5 Attachment Rate Constant

References

 

Heavy water (D₂O), also named as deuterated water, has 10 electrons. The electronic polarizability is 1.40 × 10⁻⁴⁰ F m². The molecule has three modes of vibrational excitation as shown in Table 31.1 (Shimanouchi, 1972).

31.1 SELECTED REFERENCES FOR DATA

See Table 31.2.

TABLE 31.1Vibrational Excitation Modes for D₂O

Designation	Type of Motion	Energy (meV)
v1	Symmetrical stretching	331.2
v2	Bending	146.1
V3	Antisymmetrical stretching	345.7

Source: Adapted from Shimanouchi, T., Tables of Molecular Vibrational Frequencies ...