TRITIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tritium mean? 

• TRITIUM (noun)
  The noun TRITIUM has 1 sense:

1. a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms

  Familiarity information: TRITIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRITIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("tritium" is a kind of...):

atomic number 1; H; hydrogen (a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe)

 Context examples 

As tritium released by nuclear tests shows up in rainfall, it has become a handy tool in studying hydrological cycle.

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)

More than half of some 6,000 wells studied around the world by the researchers showed traces of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that has been marking water since 1953 when nuclear weapons testing became widespread.

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)

The discovery of tritium traces in deep fossil aquifers, which were originally recharged by precipitation more than 12,000 years ago, is being attributed by the researchers to contamination by ‘younger’ groundwater closer to the earth’s surface.

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)