Tritium

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A rare radioactive hydrogen isotope with atomic mass 3 and half-life 12.5 years, prepared artificially for use as a tracer and as a constituent of hydrogen bombs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen, (symbol T or 31H), having one proton and two neutrons.
  • n. An atom of this isotope.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A radioactive isotope of hydrogen having one proton and two neutrons in the nucleus. It decays spontaneously to Helium-3 by the emission of an electron (beta ray), with a half-life of 12.3 years. Symbol 1H3. Atomic weight 3.01605 (C-12 = 12.0000). It is one of the radioisotopes commonly used to label chemical compounds for use as tracers in biochemistry and chemistry. It is also used as one of the fusionable components of a hydrogen bomb.
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  • n. a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    atomic number 1    hydrogen    h   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hydrogen-3   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    plutonium    deuterium    neptunium    thorium    isotope    cobalt-60    carbonic    cesium    helium    anæsthetic