How to Use tritium in a Sentence
tritium
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In the end, Gross correctly spelled tritium to reign supreme over a sprawling crowd of 189.
—Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 17 Nov. 2017
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People are exposed to tritium in small amounts in tap water and in rain.
—Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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The isotopes butting heads will be deuterium and tritium.
—Laura Mallonee, Wired, 21 Apr. 2020
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If the blanket contains lithium, the neutrons will split some of those nuclei to form more tritium.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 19 Feb. 2021
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So can the frozen hydrogen inside, a mix of the isotopes deuterium and tritium.
—David R Baker & Will Wade, oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2022
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That process cannot eliminate tritium, which remains in the water.
—Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023
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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
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The tritium glow hands and indices are very visible in no-light conditions.
—Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
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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
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The tritium is then filtered out of the blanket and recycled into fusion fuel.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
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Or the water could be used to make concrete, from which tritium’s beta particles are unable to escape.
—Bydennis Normile, science.org, 24 Jan. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Deuterium has one proton and one neutron while tritium has one proton and two neutrons.
—David Donovan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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The 50 million watts is only the power supplied directly to the deuterium and tritium fuel.
—Don Lincoln, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
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But it could also be used to produce plutonium or tritium.
—Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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That eliminates the need to freeze the deuterium and tritium at ultralow temperatures.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
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While the water has been treated to remove most of the most dangerous radioactive components, traces of tritium remain.
—NBC News, 13 Jan. 2020
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It’s been 24 years since scientists set the existing fusion record using tritium.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2021
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