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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NanoTritium batteries are ultra-low-power, long-life betavoltaic devices developed by City Labs, Inc. These nanowatt-to-microwatt batteries utilize the...
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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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Isotopes of hydrogen (section Hydrogen-3 (tritium))
use today: 2H is deuterium and 3H is tritium. The symbols D and T are sometimes used for deuterium and tritium; IUPAC (International Union of Pure and...
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Helium-3 (section Tritium decay)
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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Heavy water (section Tritium production)
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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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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Radioluminescence (section Tritium)
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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Tritiated water (redirect from Tritium oxide)
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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Fusion power (section Deuterium, tritium)
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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Nuclear reactor coolant (section Tritium leak)
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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Luminous paint (section Tritium)
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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CANDU reactor (section Tritium production)
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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product. An illumination device called a betalight contains tritium and a phosphor. As tritium decays, it emits beta particles; these strike the phosphor...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Common beta emitters (section Tritium)
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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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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KATRIN (redirect from Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment)
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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firearm magazines, tritium knives, and other tritium light source integration services. The company provides development assistance in tritium (self-luminous)...
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