tritium

See also: Tritium

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “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, 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 m (trítij)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氚 (cyun¹), 超重氫, 超重氢 (ciu¹ zung⁶ hing¹)

  Mandarin: 氚 (zh) (chuān), 超重氫 (zh), 超重氢 (zh) (chāozhòngqīng)

• Dutch: tritium (nl)
• Esperanto: tricio, tritio
• Finnish: tritium (fi)
• German: Tritium (de) n
• Hungarian: trícium

• Icelandic: þrívetni n, ofurþungt vetni n
• Italian: trizio (it) m
• Japanese: 三重水素 (sanjūsuiso)
• Korean: 삼중수소 (ko) (三重水素, samjungsuso), 초중수소 (超重水素, chojungsuso), 트리튬 (teurityum)
• Polish: tryt m
• Portuguese: trítio (pt) m
• Russian: три́тий (ru) m (trítij)
• Swedish: tritium (sv) n

References

• Elementymology

Further reading

• tritium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ittrium

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: tri‧ti‧um

Noun

tritium n (uncountable)

1. tritium

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tritium n (genitive tritiī); second declension

1. tritium

Inflection

Second declension.

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