How to Use tritium in a Sentence

tritium

noun
  • Between these cells, five tritium vials are placed in a row.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Apr. 2026
  • People are exposed to tritium in small amounts in tap water and in rain.
    — Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Optional glow-in-the-dark tritium tubes can be added to the sides of the knife for an extra fee.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2026
  • With many of us stuck at home for both work and play, silence is more precious than gold (or platinum, or tritium).
    — Ryan Waniata, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
  • That process cannot eliminate tritium, which remains in the water.
    — Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The process would require the fusion of deuterium and tritium.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The deuterium from a glass of water, with a little tritium added, could power a house for a year.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
  • If the blanket contains lithium, the neutrons will split some of those nuclei to form more tritium.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 19 Feb. 2021
  • There's also a hole for a lanyard or keyring, along with two slots for optional vials of glow-in-the-dark tritium.
    — New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Oh yes, and there are also the usual slots – three, in this case – for optional vials of glow-in-the-dark tritium.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The tritium glow hands and indices are very visible in no-light conditions.
    — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
  • Oh yes, and there's also the obligatory slot for an optional vial of glow-in-the-dark tritium.
    — New Atlas, 19 June 2025
  • While deuterium is very common and obtained from water, tritium is very rare.
    — Sophie Blondel, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Deuterium has one neutron in the nucleus and tritium has two.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2024
  • This example has a tritium dial, which has aged to a pleasant off-white color against the navy dial.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Deuterium has one proton and one neutron while tritium has one proton and two neutrons.
    — David Donovan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The matte black base hosts creamy tritium lume markers that have remained mostly intact around the dial.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 19 July 2024
  • So can the frozen hydrogen inside, a mix of the isotopes deuterium and tritium.
    — David R Baker & Will Wade, oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Or the water could be used to make concrete, from which tritium’s beta particles are unable to escape.
    — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The tritium is then filtered out of the blanket and recycled into fusion fuel.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
  • Helion was the first company licensed to use radioactive tritium as a fusion source.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Rounding out the multitool's features are three slots for optional glow-in-the-dark vials of tritium, to help find the thing at night or in a coal mine.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Any leaks could lead to a release of radioactive tritium, a heavy hydrogen isotope that is one of fusion’s fuels.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 3 July 2024
  • Experts say tritium is not harmful to humans in small amounts and has been routinely released from nuclear plants around the world.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The other, tritium, can be made by exposing lithium — the same metal used in batteries — to neutrons.
    — David R Baker, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The water has been treated, but still contains minute amounts of the harder-to-remove radioactive isotope tritium.
    — Catherine Thorbecke and Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 26 July 2021
  • The water is then treated to remove most of the radioactive elements, but not tritium, which is a heavy form of hydrogen.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
  • This example uses a tritium dial and shows slight signs of age, while the case and bracelet are crisp with only superficial markings.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2024
  • And there are three slots for tritium vials to help users find the UltraFix Driver easier in the dark.
    — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
  • It’s been 24 years since scientists set the existing fusion record using tritium.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2021

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