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From: [email protected] (InfoSpunj (Dan Field))
Subject: Re: Too many MRIs?

In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Paul Roberts) writes:
>In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Dick King) writes:
>>
>>I recall reading somewhere, during my youth, in some science popularization
>>book, that whyle isotope changes don't normally affect chemistry, a consumption
>>of only heavy water would be fatal, and that seeds watered only with heavy
>>water do not sprout.  Does anyone know about this?
>>
>
>I also heard this. I always thought it might make a good eposide of
>'Columbo' for someone to be poisoned with heavy water - it wouldn't
>show up in any chemical test.

That would be a very expensive toxin indeed!
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