Deuterium
| Deuterium | |||||||
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 Deuterium Fluid Icon | |||||||
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| Type | Gas | ||||||
| Made With/By | Deuterium Cells, Cryo-Electrolysis | ||||||
| Exists in Reality | Yes | ||||||
| Temperature | ~20°C | ||||||
| Renewable? | Yes | ||||||
| Flammable | 5.0 kTU | ||||||
| Combustible | 10.0 kHE | ||||||
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| Deuterium [Flammable] Provides 5.0kTU per bucket [Combustible] Provides 10.0kHE per bucket Fuel grade High [Gaseous] Hbm's Nuclear Tech | |||||||
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Deuterium () is a dark-blue, flammable, combustible gas with a high fuel grade, providing 5.0 kTU and 10.0 kHE per bucket. Although being stated as a high fuel grade gas, deuterium is not efficient to produce energy as stated earlier due to how much energy it produces per bucket, the "high" fuel grade can probably be linked to the fact it is used in the fusion reactor as its main fuel.
It is an important fluid, being primarily used as fuel in the fusion reactor alongside tritium to produce deuterium-tritium plasma (see plasma heater).
Production
Deuterium can be produced in a few ways, two of those being in the deuterium extractor and the deuterium extraction tower, where regular water goes in, and heavy water comes out, which is the product used to produce deuterium.
The heavy water can be turned into deuterium with the electrolysis machine with the following recipe:
2,000mB
200mB
200mBUses
Deuterium has a few uses, primarily alongside tritium in the plasma heater, a machine used in conjunction with the fusion reactor to produce various different plasmas. It also has a few other uses, some of them being in the assembly machine:
| Inputs | Recipe |
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| Assembly Template: Thermonuclear Warhead
Production Time: 25.0 seconds |
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| Assembly Template: Tritium-Deuterium-Cake
Production Time: 7.5 seconds |
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| Assembly Template: Deuterium Tank
Production Time: 10.0 seconds |
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| Assembly Template: Plasma Grenade
Production Time: 15.0 seconds |
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Another use of deuterium is in a regular crafting table. Being used to make a makeshift energy core, an item used to power machines and armors. It is made with the following recipe:
Trivia
- The deuterium Tank item is one of the main ingredients used to detonate the Ivy Mike bomb, just like in real life, where the real explosive used as a fusion fuel for the reaction.
Gallery
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A deuterium cell, containing 1000mB of Deuterium.
