German

Noun

Tritium n ‎(genitive Tritiums, no plural)

1. tritium (hydrogen isotope, chemical symbol: T)

English

Noun

tritium ‎(plural tritiums)

1. (physics) A radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen (symbol T or ³₁H) having one proton and two neutrons.
2. An atom of this isotope.
   • 1998, Donald Lee Wise, Electrical and optical polymer systems, ISBN 9780824701185, page 765:

     Electrochemical polymerization of the 1,2-tritiated monomer produced a polymer in which all of the tritiums were eliminated except for those located at the ends of the chains

Synonyms

• T (chemical symbol), hydrogen-3

Hypernyms

• hydrogen

Coordinate terms

• (isotopes of hydrogen): protium, deuterium, quadrium

Derived terms

• tritium oxide

Related terms

• triton

Translations

References

• Elementymology

External links

• tritium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tri‧ti‧um

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τρίτος ‎(trítos, “third”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

tritium n ‎(uncountable)

1. tritium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ti.um/, [ˈtrɪ.ti.ũ]

Noun

tritium n ‎(genitive tritiī); second declension

1. tritium

Inflection

Second declension.