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Heavy water was discovered by
A)
Hans Suess
B)
John S. Lewis
C)
Harold Urey
D)
Alexander Oparin

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Harold Urey



Harold Urey won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for discovering deuterium, the key component of heavy water. Gilbert Lewis, a renowned chemist at U.C. Berkeley, isolated the first sample of essentially pure heavy water from ordinary water in 1933.

Published On : June 9, 2021
Category : Science and Technology
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