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...

Tritium radioluminescence is the use of gaseous tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, to create visible light. Tritium emits electrons through beta...

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...

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)...

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...

energy of tritium's radiation makes it difficult to detect tritium-labeled compounds except by using liquid scintillation counting. Tritium is a radioactive...

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...

denser but lacks unique properties. Tritiated water is radioactive due to tritium content. Heavy water has different physical properties from regular water...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

to become deuterium, and then some become radioactive tritium. Water contaminated with tritium sometimes leaks to groundwater by accident or by official...

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...

product. An illumination device called a betalight contains tritium and a phosphor. As tritium decays, it emits beta particles; these strike the phosphor...

Tritium Calcio 1908 is an Italian association football club located in Trezzo sull'Adda, Lombardy, currently playing in Serie D. The noun Tritium comes...

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...

KATRIN is a German acronym (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment) for an undertaking to measure the mass of the electron antineutrino with sub-eV precision...

38% and 13%, respectively. Fusion boosting is achieved by introducing tritium and deuterium gas. Solid lithium deuteride-tritide has also been used in...

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...

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...

based in San Rafael, California, United States. Luminox watches contain tritium inserts, providing long-term luminescence. Luminox Watch Company is a U...

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...

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...

is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei, usually deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes), combine to form one or more different atomic nuclei...

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...

from 1.25× to 6×. ACOG reticles are illuminated at night by an internal tritium phosphor. Some versions have an additional daytime reticle illumination...

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...