tritium

noun

A rare radioactive isotope of hydrogen, H-3, having one proton and two neutrons in the nucleus and a half-life of 12.3 years, prepared artificially for use as a tracer and as a constituent of hydrogen bombs.

noun

A radioactive isotope of hydrogen having one proton and two neutrons in the nucleus. It decays spontaneously to Helium-3 by the emission of an electron (beta ray), with a half-life of 12.3 years. Symbol 1H3. Atomic weight 3.01605 (C-12 = 12.0000). It is one of the radioisotopes commonly used to label chemical compounds for use as tracers in biochemistry and chemistry. It is also used as one of the fusionable components of a hydrogen bomb.

noun

A radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen, (symbol T or 31H), having one proton and two neutrons.

noun

An atom of this isotope.

noun

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