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| Jan 16, 2018 at 16:19 | comment | added | Alchimista | Actually it is the good answer to the Q. My previous comment is on another line brought in by the discussion about boiling point. Mass differences count too:, even assuming the same H bond strength water and heavy water will be different, chemically (like in biochemistry fine details) and physicochemically ( b.p. , vibrations, etc...). | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 17:31 | comment | added | paracetamol | Aha, this is something my teachers repeatedly sought to hammer into my brain :-) That nuclear differences don't affect the chemistry of substances is a general statement; it is usually (but not always) true. For instance, ron's answer (which is linked in my post), explains how hydrogen isotopes (which differ in the composition of their nucleus) produce different inductive effects, and the inductive effect is indeed a chemical phenomenon. O:) | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 16:54 | comment | added | Alchimista | I think is not the best perspective tough. Not for fine details. Else we have to eliminate boiling point arguments as well and stop at rough level, such as D2O does react wit sodium and so on. (Of course it does). | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 16:51 | comment | added | Gaurang Tandon | Yes, I understand :D | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 16:48 | comment | added | Raoul Kessels | Thank you. I do not want to discredit @paracetamol 's answer. Just to remember the fundamentals. Something my father, a Chemical Engineer, used to tell me. | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 16:39 | comment | added | Gaurang Tandon | Yes, that's also another perspective to look at it! | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 16:35 | history | answered | Raoul Kessels | CC BY-SA 3.0 |