Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for August 26, 2016

If that’s too hard for you, Mutt, just wait a while and it’ll be a soft drink.

Mike’s Hard Water?

He’s supposed to drink water from a breeder reactor?!

Heavy water is also what they use for nuclear experiments.

Those extra neutrons should give him a nice healthy glow ….. until – - – well this was written during an era when shoe stores would X-ray your feet for “The perfect fit”.

Heavy water? Isn’t that what they use to brew Nuclear Coffee?

Almost. H3O is hydronium. You were thinking of (superscript 2)H2O.

I think it is water wit high content of carbonate salts. It Doesn´t rinse the soap off your body well and you feel sticky after a shower. Remember the Zest commercial with a couple using what seemed to be a pregnancy test but ended up being a water test?

I love ice. I had a large Pepsi today at KFC and there was the biggest block of ice I had ever seen!

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Wish I could go outside and see ice today. Also heavy water is actually radioactive water. Don’t want to drink that.

Hard water has the salts. Heavy water has deuterium (with a proton and a neutron in its nucleus) instead of regular hydrogen (just the proton), so it’s about 11% heavier. As to drinking it, I remember the 1966 Batman movie in which the Penguin accidentally used heavy water (used for the Batcave’s nuclear reactor) to rehydrate four dehydrated goons. It made them so physically unstable two of them dissapeared into another dimension when punched; the other two did so when they got scared by this and ran into each other.

I read somewhere that heavy water will not actually quench thirst. Is true?

“There’s no swimming in the heavy water, no singing in the acid rain”