Abstract: Utilizing the fact that a predetermined adsorbent adsorbs light water at an initial desorption rate higher than heavy water and semi-heavy water, deuterium depleted water having a reduced concentration of heavy water and semi-heavy water is produced easily and in a short time. A method for producing deuterium depleted water by removing heavy water and semi-heavy water from water, the method including: a desorption process in which a relative pressure around a predetermined adsorbent with adsorbed water vapor is reduced, and in which water vapor desorbed from the adsorbent is recovered during a period of time when a desorption rate of light water>a desorption rate of the heavy water and semi-heavy water.

Abstract: Provided is a TRIP-aided dual-phase martensitic steel which is excellent in terms of strength-elongation balance and Charpy impact value and has dual-phase martensite composed of a soft lath martensitic structure and a hard lath martensitic structure as a matrix phase, regardless of forging temperature or forging reduction ratio, by controlling heat treatment conditions. The dual-phase martensitic steel contains 0.1-0.7% C, 0.5-2.5% Si, 0.5-3.0% Mn, 0.5-2.0% Cr, 0.5% or less (including 0%) of Mo, 0.04-2.5% Al, and the balance Fe with incidental impurities; has its metallographic structure in which a matrix phase is composed of a soft lath martensitic structure and a hard lath martensitic structure; and obtained by heating its raw steel material to a ?-range, rapidly cooling the heated material to a temperature slightly above a martensite transformation starting temperature (Ms), and then performing an isothermal transformation process the cooled material in the temperature range from Mf to [(Mf)?100° C].