How to Use tritium in a Sentence

tritium

noun

• In the end, Gross correctly spelled tritium to reign supreme over a sprawling crowd of 189.
  — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 17 Nov. 2017
• The deuterium from a glass of water, with a little tritium added, could power a house for a year.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
• With many of us stuck at home for both work and play, silence is more precious than gold (or platinum, or tritium).
  — Ryan Waniata, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
• The isotopes butting heads will be deuterium and tritium.
  — Laura Mallonee, Wired, 21 Apr. 2020
• If the blanket contains lithium, the neutrons will split some of those nuclei to form more tritium.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 19 Feb. 2021
• So can the frozen hydrogen inside, a mix of the isotopes deuterium and tritium.
  — David R Baker & Will Wade, oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2022
• That process cannot eliminate tritium, which remains in the water.
  — Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The company has recovered about 25 percent of the tritium released and expects to recover the rest in the next year.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• The tritium glow hands and indices are very visible in no-light conditions.
  — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
• Plasma: Made up of two isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium), the plasma is the fuel that drives the fusion process.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
• The tritium is then filtered out of the blanket and recycled into fusion fuel.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
• The water is then treated to remove most of the radioactive elements, but not tritium, which is a heavy form of hydrogen.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
• Chinese records show that local power plants such as Daya Bay in Shenzhen also have released large amounts of tritium into the sea.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
• Klein, among others, believes that the concentrations of tritium are low enough that the water can safely be released into the sea.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 27 Apr. 2018
• The water has been treated, but still contains minute amounts of the harder-to-remove radioactive isotope tritium.
  — Catherine Thorbecke and Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 26 July 2021
• Experts say tritium is not harmful to humans in small amounts and has been routinely released from nuclear plants around the world.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
• The other, tritium, can be made by exposing lithium — the same metal used in batteries — to neutrons.
  — David R Baker, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Deuterium has one proton and one neutron while tritium has one proton and two neutrons.
  — David Donovan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
• To counter this, Japan has committed to conduct and publish regular sampling data to look for tritium in seafood caught in the Pacific east of Japan.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
• The wastewater will then be diluted to 1,500 becquerels of tritium – a unit of radioactivity – per liter of clean water.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 4 July 2023
• The 50 million watts is only the power supplied directly to the deuterium and tritium fuel.
  — Don Lincoln, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• But it could also be used to produce plutonium or tritium.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2018
• Much of what seems difficult about fusion to a plasma physicist—How will tritium be produced and recycled?
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• But the end result of using carbon will be organic molecules with a high percentage of tritium—not something to be messed around with.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2020
• All the same, the technology is unproven at large scales, and no one really knows whether or how well tritium production and extraction will work.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• That eliminates the need to freeze the deuterium and tritium at ultralow temperatures.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• While the water has been treated to remove most of the most dangerous radioactive components, traces of tritium remain.
  — NBC News, 13 Jan. 2020
• It’s been 24 years since scientists set the existing fusion record using tritium.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2021
• The tritium hypothesis fits the data to a confidence level of 3.2 sigma.
  — Rafi Letzter, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
• The setup was this: 192 lasers were aimed at a pea-sized gold cylinder, called a hohlraum, inside of which was a 2-millimeter pellet filled with deuterium and tritium (isotopes of hydrogen).
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2014

Last Updated: 28 May 2024