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tritium

/trit-ee-uhm, trish-, trish-uhm/US // ˈtrɪt i əm, ˈtrɪʃ-, ˈtrɪʃ əm //UK // (ˈtrɪtɪəm) //

氚,氚气,镭射,铀

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chemistry.

    • : an isotope of hydrogen having an atomic weight of three. Symbols:3H, T

Examples

  • That fuel is a mixture of deuterium and tritium, varieties of hydrogen that respectively contain one or two neutrons in their atomic nuclei.

  • That tritium could have been trapped within the materials that make up the detector, and may have slowly leaked out.

  • Wanted to trade all the tritium we'd need to blow up a planet just for trees; because they worshipped trees!

  • Another kind, which can be made in a nuclear reactor, is called tritium.