noun. A mixture of butter and suger. A mixture of butter and suger. The definition of a mixture is a combination of different things, or the state or act of being mixed. 1  An example of a mixture is a bowl of butter, sugar and salt. 2  An example of mixture is the process of combining flour and baking soda.
deuterium oxide. An isotope of water in which hydrogen has been displaced by its isotope deuterium. Its properties differ from ordinary water in that it has higher freezing and boiling points and is incapable of supporting life.
Deuterium is an isotope of the chemical element hydrogen. Unlike normal hydrogen, which has one proton, deuterium has one proton and one neutron. This isotope is non-radioactive, and is found in small quantities wherever hydrogen is present. It is primarily used in nuclear fusion, as a moderator for fission reactors, and in nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.