Comment Re:umm NOT. (Score 1) 87
NMR is useful for detecting any nucleus with integral or half integral spin - the only thing its useless for is a nuclei with no intrinsic spin.
Deuterium NMR is actually fairly useful; the deuterium resonance is used in most modern spectrometers as a lock signal to monitor the drift of the magnetic field in which the spectrum is being taken, and maintain spectra which can be averaged together to get a better signal to noise ratio. It's only because deuterium has a different resonance frequency that it doesn't show up in standard proton NMRs.
Deuterium NMR is actually fairly useful; the deuterium resonance is used in most modern spectrometers as a lock signal to monitor the drift of the magnetic field in which the spectrum is being taken, and maintain spectra which can be averaged together to get a better signal to noise ratio. It's only because deuterium has a different resonance frequency that it doesn't show up in standard proton NMRs.
