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.
Hydrogen was named by Lavoisier. Deuterium gas (2H2, often written D2), made up from deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, was discovered in 1931 by Harold Urey, a professor of chemistry at Chicago and California (both USA).