hydrogen-1
Noun
Meaning
hydrogen-1 (uncountable)
Synonym for protium (most common isotope of hydrogen)
Examples
For hydrogen-1, the quantity is about 1/1836 (i.e. the electron-to-proton mass ratio).
Nearly all deuterium found in nature was produced in the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, as the basic or primordial ratio of hydrogen-1 (protium) to deuterium (about 26 atoms of deuterium per million hydrogen atoms) has its origin from that time.
The name refers to examination of protons as they occur in protium (hydrogen-1 atoms) in compounds, and does not imply that free protons exist in the compound being studied.
Thus deuterium accounts for approximately 0.0156% (or on a mass basis 0.0312%) of all the naturally occurring hydrogen in the oceans, while the most common isotope ( hydrogen-1 or protium) accounts for more than 99.98%.
For hydrogen-1, hydrogen-2 ( deuterium ), and hydrogen-3 ( tritium ) the constant must be slightly modified to use the reduced mass of the system, rather than simply the mass of the electron.
However, other astronomical bodies are found to have different ratios of deuterium to hydrogen-1.