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    Tritium (from Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos) 'third') or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or 3H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen with half-life ~12.3...
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    Tritium radioluminescence is the use of gaseous tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, to create visible light. Tritium emits electrons through beta...
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  • Look up tritium in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Tritium may also refer to: Tritium Calcio 1908, an Italian...
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    Deuterium–tritium fusion (sometimes abbreviated D+T) (DTF) is a type of nuclear fusion in which one deuterium (2H) nucleus (deuteron) fuses with one tritium (3H)...
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    and the 3 H (or hydrogen-3) isotope is tritium. The symbols D and T are sometimes used for deuterium and tritium. The IUPAC accepts the D and T symbols...
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    energy of tritium's radiation makes it difficult to detect tritium-labeled compounds except by using liquid scintillation counting. Tritium is a radioactive...
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    inhaled. Since tritium is a gas, if a tritium tube breaks, the gas dissipates in the air and is diluted to safe concentrations. Tritium has a half-life...
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    denser but lacks unique properties. Tritiated water is radioactive due to tritium content. Heavy water has different physical properties from regular water...
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    fusion reactors generally use heavy hydrogen isotopes such as deuterium and tritium (and especially a mixture of the two), which react more easily than protium...
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    which the usual protium atoms are replaced with tritium atoms. In its pure form it may be called tritium oxide (T2O or 3H2O) or super-heavy water. Pure...
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    remote maintenance; to achieve and learn from a burning plasma; to test tritium breeding; and to demonstrate the safety of a fusion plant. ITER's thermonuclear...
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  • phosphor, and filled with tritium. They are known under many names – e.g. gaseous tritium light source (GTLS), traser, betalight. Tritium light sources are most...
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    ingested, or absorbed tritium is 10–12 days. Tritium is generated in the fuel of all reactors; CANDU reactors generate tritium also in their coolant and...
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  • to become deuterium, and then some become radioactive tritium. Water contaminated with tritium sometimes leaks to groundwater by accident or by official...
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  • A tritium breeding module or TBM is a component of a fusion reactor that produces tritium. ITER will have four easily removable TBMs in order to test...
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  • substituting hydrogen in the desired organic compound with tritium. The decay of tritium to 3He+ followed by its extraction of a hydrogen atom from the...
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    38% and 13%, respectively. Fusion boosting is achieved by introducing tritium and deuterium gas. Solid lithium deuteride-tritide has also been used in...
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  • Tritium Calcio 1908 is an Italian association football club located in Trezzo sull'Adda, Lombardy, currently playing in Serie D. The noun Tritium comes...
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  • Exotic atom (redirect from Pionic tritium)
    An exotic atom is an otherwise normal atom in which one or more sub-atomic particles have been replaced by other particles of the same charge. For example...
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    of the news reports, it was unknown both how much tritium had entered the river and how the tritium had collected in the standing water, given that Unit...
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    KATRIN is a German acronym (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment) for an undertaking to measure the mass of the electron antineutrino with sub-eV precision...
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  • The tritium breeding blanket (also known as a fusion blanket, lithium blanket or simply blanket), is a key part of many proposed fusion reactor designs...
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    nuclear reaction is the one that creates tritium, or hydrogen-3. Tritium is employed in two ways. First, pure tritium gas is produced for placement inside...
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    Sight Unit Small Arms, Trilux, or SUSAT, is a 4× telescopic sight, with tritium-powered illumination utilised at dusk or dawn. The full name of the current...
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  • self-powered lightings. The half-life of tritium is 12.3 years. The electrons from beta emission from tritium are so low in energy (average decay energy...
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    Tritium was used on and the original Panerai Luminor dive watch Radiomir and almost all Swiss watches from 1960 to 1998 when it was banned. Tritium-based...
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    based in San Rafael, California, United States. Luminox watches contain tritium inserts, providing long-term luminescence. Luminox Watch Company is a U...
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  • firearm magazines, tritium knives, and other tritium light source integration services. The company provides development assistance in tritium (self-luminous)...
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    accelerating either deuterium, tritium, or a mixture of these two isotopes into a metal hydride target which also contains deuterium, tritium or a mixture of these...
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  • Tritium is a simple scripting language for efficiently transforming structured data like HTML, XML, and JSON. It is similar in purpose to XSLT but has...
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