Assertion: tritium | /r/HasProperty | radioactive
Facets:
value: slightly
type: DEGREE
value: in nature
type: LOCATION
value: in controlled nuclear fusion
type: LOCATION
value: in self-powered lighting
type: LOCATION
value: biologically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Tritium is Radioactive and the H in H bomb yet it is also in your drinking water, can be bought without restriction and is even inside you right now.
text: Tritium is a radioactive isotope (this is the only radioactive isotope of hydrogen).
text: Tritium is a radioactive gas that glows in the dark.
text: Tritium is a radioactive element with a half-life of 12.3 years and low-energy beta decay.
text: Although tritium is volatile and biologically active, the health risk posed by a release is much lower than that of most radioactive contaminants, because of tritium's short half-life (12.32 years) and very low decay energy (~14.95 keV), and because it does not bioaccumulate (instead being cycled out of the body as water, with a biological half-life of 7 to 14 days).
text: Tritium is the active substance in self-powered lighting and controlled nuclear fusion, its other uses including autoradiography and radioactive labeling.
text: Tritium is a radioactive form, or “isotope", of hydrogen.
text: Tritium is a radioactive species having a half-life of 12.32 years; it occurs in natural water with an abundance of 10-18 of that of natural hydrogen.
text: Tritium is a radioactive material.
text: But this still contains tritium , a radioactive substance.
text: Tritium (3H) is the radioactive isotope of H that decays by β - decay to 3He (half-life):
text: Tritium night sights are essentially glass tubes filled with phosphorescent materials and a very, very small amount of tritium, a radioactive hydrogen isotope.
text: Tritium is hydrogen’s radioactive isotope, and it emits electrons due to radioactive decay, causing the phosphor to glow.
text: Tritium is radioactive, decaying with a half-life of 12.45 years to the stable, inert daughter isotope 3He.
text: Moreover, tritium is radioactive while deuterium is a stable isotope.
text: Tritium is radioactive, but not at all harmful in the form or quantities found in watches today.
text: It is radioactive.
text: Although Tritium is also radioactive the radioactivity is composed entirely of Beta particles that are unable to escape through the glass.
text: Tritium is radioactive; it has a half-life of 12.5 years, decaying to a very soft (low energy) negative beta particle (electron; the positive beta particle is called a positron) and a helium-3 nucleus.
text: Tritium is radioactive, with a half-life of 12.26 years.
text: Out of these three isotopes of hydrogen, the only tritium is radioactive in nature which emits low energy b particles.
text: Tritium is radioactive and has a half-life of about 12 years.
text: Tritium is radioactive and emits beta particles.
text: As it turns out, the alleged connection between Tritium exposure and cancer (or genetic damage) also seems to be an assumption based on the mere fact that Tritium is radioactive.
text: However, both the US EPA and NRC assume that because Tritium is radioactive, and assume all radiation causes irreparable damage to living cells and DNA, they subsequently assume that any Tritium exposure via ingestion necessarily places people at an extremely low level of risk.
text: Tritium is radioactive, but it only emits low levels of energy, particularly when it is decaying.
text: It is radioactive, having a nucleus formed of one proton and two neutrons, while the most abundant isotope of hydrogen, protium, has no neutrons.
text: Tritium is radioactive, decaying by electron emission with a half-life of 12.5 years.
text: Tritium is radioactive, with a half life on the order of a decade.
text: His failure to find tritium in the concentrate from Norsk Hydro could be attributed to the fact that tritium was radioactive and that helium-3 was stable.
text: Tritium is radioactive and has a half-life of about 12.5 years.
text: Tritium is radioactive with a half-life of 12.32 years.
text: However, while their chemical properties are identical their nuclear properties are quite different as only tritium is radioactive.
text: Tritium is radioactive.
text: Moreover, a further difference between deuterium and tritium is that the deuterium is a stable isotope and we can find it in nature whereas tritium is a radioactive isotope that we cannot find it in nature.
text: Tritium is also a radioactive isotope and it rapidly replaced radium in watches after World War II
text: Because tritium is a radioactive isotope, it constantly emits electrons due to beta decay.
text: Tritium is a radioactive isotope that needs special handling procedures.
text: If you’re worried about safety — after all, we did mention that tritium is a radioactive isotope — don’t be.
text: Tritium is a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 12.355 years.
text: Tritium is a radioactive isotope with a half-life of about 12 years, which means the glass tube loses half its energy and some of its brightness in that period.
text: Tritium is a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 12.32 years.
text: Tritium is a radioactive isotope with a half-life of about 12 years, which means the glass tube loses half its energy and some of its brightness in that period.
text: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has confirmed that the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina has received it first shipment of nuclear rods containing tritium, a radioactive gas that is a key ingredient in nuclear weapons.
text: Despite some downsides—such as the production of highly energetic neutrons, and the fact that tritium is a slightly radioactive element—the DT reaction will probably remain for a long time to come the only way to produce viable fusion energy.