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

• Afrikaans: tritium
• Bulgarian: три́тий m (trítij)
• Catalan: triti m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氚 (yue) (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 (hu)
• Icelandic: þrívetni n, ofurþungt vetni n
• Italian: trizio (it) m
• Japanese: 三重水素 (ja) (sanjūsuiso)
• Korean: 삼중수소(三重水素) (ko) (samjungsuso), 초중수소(超重水素) (chojungsuso), 트리튬 (teurityum)
• Polish: tryt m
• Portuguese: trítio (pt) m
• Russian: три́тий (ru) m (trítij)
• Spanish: tritio
• 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

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: tri‧ti‧um

Noun

tritium n (uncountable)

1. tritium

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Finnish

Etymology

From English tritium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtritium/, [ˈt̪rit̪ium]
• Rhymes: -itium
• Syllabification^(key): tri‧ti‧um

Noun

tritium

1. (physics) tritium

Declension

Inflection of tritium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		tritium	tritiumit
genitive		tritiumin	tritiumien
partitive		tritiumia	tritiumeja
illative		tritiumiin	tritiumeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tritium	tritiumit
accusative	nom.	tritium	tritiumit
	gen.	tritiumin
genitive		tritiumin	tritiumien
partitive		tritiumia	tritiumeja
inessive		tritiumissa	tritiumeissa
elative		tritiumista	tritiumeista
illative		tritiumiin	tritiumeihin
adessive		tritiumilla	tritiumeilla
ablative		tritiumilta	tritiumeilta
allative		tritiumille	tritiumeille
essive		tritiumina	tritiumeina
translative		tritiumiksi	tritiumeiksi
instructive		—	tritiumein
abessive		tritiumitta	tritiumeitta
comitative		—	tritiumeineen

Possessive forms of tritium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tritiumini	tritiumimme
2nd person	tritiumisi	tritiuminne
3rd person	tritiuminsa

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

tritium m (plural tritiums)

1. tritium

Further reading

• “tritium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ti.um/, [ˈt̪rɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtrit.t͡si.um/, [ˈt̪rit̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

tritium n (genitive tritiī or tritī); second declension

1. tritium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tritium	tritia
Genitive	tritiī tritī1	tritiōrum
Dative	tritiō	tritiīs
Accusative	tritium	tritia
Ablative	tritiō	tritiīs
Vocative	tritium	tritia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).