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   And verily, didst David Johnston  hastily babble thusly:   
   > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:48:15 -0500, pv+usenet@pobox.com (PV) wrote:   
   >   
   >>David Johnston  writes:   
   >>>>Then you never learned how to read the periodic table. *   
   >>>   
   >>>When I look up the definition of deuterium it doesn't say that it is   
   >>>an element.   
   >>   
   >>Deuterium is Hydrogen. It's an element   
   >   
   > Nope.  Most hydrogen isn't deuterium.  Deuterium is a specific isotope   
   > of hydrogen.   
      
   But still an element. If you look at the official definition of element   
   which is, (without looking it up myself), a chemical substance that is in   
   its most basic form and incapable of being further broken down into smaller   
   parts.   
      
   Of course, they were defined thus before the atom was split, but it's still   
   a pretty good definition.   
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