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lithium deuteride

n. (context chemistry English) a form of lithium hydride in which the normal hydrogen is replaced with deuterium; used in thermonuclear weapons

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Usage examples of "lithium deuteride".

An H-bomb with circuitry ruined is not a bomb, is just big tub of lithium deuteride that can't do anything but crash.

There was, Sweeney knew, a considerable amount of deuterium on Ganymede, some of it locked in the icy wastes of Neptune's Trident, a lesser amount scattered through the rocks in the form of lithium deuteride.