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Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen. Normal Hydrogen has one proton in its nucleus. Deuterium has a proton and a neutron in its nucleus. It’s extremely rare in nature. One of the big efforts during WWII was to collect deuterium in the form of ‘heavy water’ — that’s water (H2O) with one or more hydrogen atoms replaced by deuterium.
