tritium
tritium
Definition
trit·ium (trit′ē əm)
tritium
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- produce: The United States has recently announced its intention of using a civilian nuclear energy plant to produce tritium for the military.
- contain: It also had requirements for handling, applying, and disposing of Tritium, and watches containing Tritium.
- exclude: Note B: Excluding tritium, potassium-40, radon, and radon decay products.
- have: The subsidiary seconds are at 9. It still has bright tritium luminous dial markings.
Adjective modifier
- total: No specific standard radioactivity total indicative dose tritium Anglian Water supplies have been assessed as very low risk.
Modifies a noun
- gas: The luminous dial illumination for night navigation uses Tritium gas.
- production: Tritium production, halted for fifteen years, is to restart this year.
- level: Tritium levels in waters off site intermittently exceed World Health Organization drinking water limits.
- beta: Gordon et al. reports tritium beta efficiencies of 27 % for devices having large 1mm 2 pixels.
- experiment: From tritium decay experiments comes an upper limit of 2.2 eV for the electron neutrino.
- standard: Figure 1 shows an image of the tritium standard accumulated in 20 hours.
Preposition: in
- fish: Levels of tritium in fish caught in the Severn Estuary near the plant were hundreds of times higher than expected.
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