tritium

English

Etymology

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

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^[1], 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

radioactive isotope of hydrogen

• Bulgarian: тритий (bg) (trítij) m 
• Chinese: 氚 (chuān)
• Dutch: tritium (nl)
• Esperanto: tricio (eo), tritio (eo)
• Finnish: tritium (fi)
• German: Tritium (de) n
• Icelandic: þrívetni (is) n, ofurþungt vetni (is) n
• Italian: trizio (it) m

• Japanese: 三重水素 (sanjūsuiso)
• Korean: 삼중수소 (ko) (三重水素, samjungsuso), 초중수소 (ko) (超重水素, chojungsuso), 트리튬 (ko) (teurityum)
• Polish: tryt (pl) m
• Portuguese: trítio (pt) m
• Russian: тритий (ru) (trítij) m 
• Swedish: tritium (sv) n

References

• Elementymology

External links

• Tritium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Pronunciation

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Noun

tritium n (^??? please provide the plural!, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. tritium

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Latin

Noun

tritium (genitive tritiī); n, second declension

1. tritium

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	tritium	tritia
genitive	tritiī	tritiōrum
dative	tritiō	tritiīs
accusative	tritium	tritia
ablative	tritiō	tritiīs
vocative	tritium	tritia