How to Use heavy water in a Sentence

heavy water

noun
  • My arms keep pulling, through the heavy water, through the air.
    Peter Rock, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The key part of the heavy water plant was in the basement of this enormous fortress of steel and stone.
    National Geographic, 5 June 2016
  • The ants pouring out of the sink, onto my arms in dish heavy water.
    New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of the flames and heavy water sprayed by fire crews, who controlled the fire by 8:30 p.m.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2022
  • The barges, along with trees and branches and a heavy water flow pushed one of them down the river to Harpers Ferry, in West Virginia.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 8 May 2022
  • The heavy water falls, dragging some of the surrounding water with it.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Shoshone Falls, which boasted some of the heaviest water flows in years this spring, came roaring back to life on the Snake River this week.
    Christina Lords, idahostatesman, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Alkins said units on the third, fourth, and fifth floors sustained heavy water damage and the entire building was affected by the smoke.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
  • The westbound portion of the roadway was closed Jan. 27 due to a water main break that had caused icy conditions from heavy water flow.
    cleveland, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Venus’s overabundance of heavy water is thought to be the dregs from an ocean’s worth of normal water that once graced the planet untold eons ago.
    Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
  • The Dutch government has tiptoed around raising prices for heavy water users, wary of a backlash.
    Raymond Zhong, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Fairley and his team added heavy water to several of Yellowstone’s hot springs and tracked the rate at which its amount decreased over time.
    Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
  • Lost lots of shingles, heavy water damage in ceilings, walls, our deck is destroyed.
    Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The release said there was fire damage to the office, smoke damage to the eighth and ninth floors, minor water damage to the seventh floor and heavy water damage to the eighth floor.
    Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Its rarity made heavy water the Achilles’ heel of the German nuclear bomb program.
    Timothy J. Jorgensen, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The fire affected the central part of the apartment complex, with heavy water and smoke damage on the second and third floors, according to the American Red Cross.
    Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Perhaps most alarming is the heavy water usage, with wells dug to mix vast quantities of cement, leading to the depletion of aquifers and rare desert springs.
    John Washington, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Rouhani said at the time that Iran would keep its excess enriched uranium and heavy water, instead of selling it to other countries.
    Nada Bashir, Hira Humayun and Bianca Britton, CNN, 17 June 2019
  • Having a fast, non-invasive method such as heavy water tracing would be a great economic boon.
    Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
  • The Sacramento region, where lawns are big and summers are hot, traditionally has been one of the heaviest water users in the state.
    Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Data centers are heavy water users, and Avondale is among the southwest Valley cities with less access to surface water such as from the Colorado River.
    Joshua Bowling, azcentral, 3 June 2020
  • Environmental activists have warned that the San Pedro River is in danger of drying up due to heavy water use.
    Ian James, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Some researchers tried giving heavy water to growing pigs and found that those who ate diets very high in carbs incorporated some of the heavy hydrogen as lipids in their body fat.
    Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Such reactors use heavy water as a coolant and produce plutonium as a waste product, which can be used in nuclear weapons.
    Laurence Norman, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • Three apartments remain unoccupied and probably will be for some time due to heavy water damage and some fire damage, Lenzi said.
    Jim Newton, Lake County News-Sun, 16 May 2018
  • Haley pointed to breaches in the amount of heavy water that Iran was allowed to have and refusal to open up all its sites for inspection as grounds for labeling Iran as noncompliant.
    Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
  • In the right balance, nuclear fuel and heavy water create steam, electricity, and light.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Brewers and other heavy water users have landed at the center of the climate fight in Mexico as the government and industry confront water shortages in the north.
    Lorena Ríos, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The student included 20 grams of deuterium oxide—heavy water—with the purchase of the plasma generator.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Deeper, heavier water increases what’s known as pore pressure, the force that exerts on rock, making the underlying faults less stable.
    Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 17 July 2019

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