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Originally Posted by tony20009
Perhaps I've forgotten something from the article, but can you help me understand why you brought up deuterium? I realize that the military and industry create it from H2O, but I've been of the mind that protium -- H1, or just plain H (one proton and no neutron for the chemically challenged <wink>) if one isn't specifically discussing hydrogen isotopes -- is the hydrogen isotope that is being used for automobile fuel cells.
All the best.
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I didn't mention deuterium. My H2 shorthand referred to the hydrogen gas bonded as H-H since hydrogen, like oxygen, is diatomic.
Protium refers to hydrogen in its nuclear state, that is just the nucleus, and so there is no electron. Protium may or may not have a neutron, which is rare, or two, which is extremely rare. Protium is what turns water into acid. In fact, the only reason hydrogen is able to hang on to its electrons in its natural state, a gas until nearly 0 Kelvin, is because of the covalent bond in S1 for the diatomic H2 molecule.