Talk:Tritium
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I'm sure I heard that fusion bombs have a lithium/tritium core, with the interesting consequence, from the decay of tritium, that the bombs deteriorate on storage, and require remanufacture after a few years... Can anyone confirm?? Malcolm Farmer
Yes, that's true. Well, the bit about the tritium decaying and the bomb yields dropping is true, the lithium/tritium is oversimplified.
It depends on the exact design of the bomb. There's been a lot of work on making it easy to replace the tritium without completely disassembling the weapon.
Does that help? Andrewa 16:51 Mar 6, 2003 (UTC)
The line " Since tritium has the same charge as ordinary hydrogen, it experiences the same electrical repulsive force. However, due to its higher mass, it is less responsive to such forces, and thus can more easily fuse with other atoms." Seems....iffy. If it IS correct it is so oversimplified that it appears wrong. a more rigorous explanation is needed.--Deglr6328 07:43, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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Most common for is tritriated water
At least the EPA thinks so [1] (http://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclides/tritium.htm). But this article more or less ignores that and talks about tritium as if it exists alone as a gas most of the time. That link also states that "Tritium replaces one of the stable hydrogens in the water molecule". That seems much more likely unless the tritriated water is created in the presence of pure tritrium. I couldn't find any solid sources to agree or disagree. Any thoughts? - Taxman 03:02, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
Mystery reactions
- [tritium is produced] by D(n,gamma)T) and 10B(n,t)8Be
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean; presumably it's some abbreviated description of nuclear reactions, but it's pretty impenetrable. If someone can clarify this, it can go back in. --Andrew 04:07, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
- This is shorthand for nuclear bombardments
- D(n,gamma)T means that Deuterium is bombarded with a neutron and releases gamma rays to become Tritium. 10B(n,t)8Be means that Boron-10 is bombarded with a neutron and releases a Tritium atom to become Beryllium-8. Both of these reactions produce Tritium. — oo64eva (AJ) (U | T | C) @ 04:18, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
Tritium keychains and US legality?
What's the deal with tritium keychains and their legality in the US? I once met a guy who had one, and he said something about having to go through a fairly complex rigamorale to acquire one. --NeuronExMachina 09:13, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
- The reason these devices cannot be imported into the U.S. is that they - unlike watches with tritium dials - are considered "frivolous" uses of technology involving nuclear radiation. As a result, he probably imported it himself, and any rigamarole he went through was probably because it set off somone's radiation detector (common at airports).dunerat 09:20, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
cold fusion in spiderman 2?!
"Tritium headed to Hollywood in the 2004 movie Spider-Man 2 where the character Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) uses the precious tritium to create cold fusion."
I didn't wan't to edit this without being sure. But I think Dr. Octopus used inertial confinement fusion and not cold fusion in spiderman 2.
In the movie, he places the deuterium-tritium ball in the middle of a spherical construction and ignites the fusion using lasers. You then see some sort of "small sun".
- Does every article need a discussion of pop culture? How about put that info and link to tritium in the Spider-Man 2 article? - Taxman Talk</sup> 13:20, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
I agree that spiderman 2 doesn't need to be in this article. But I found that reference to cold fusion in spiderman in there and I think that it is wrong. All I want to do is correct it. But I wanted to be sure that it is not cold fusion. Otherwise, a simple solution is to remove the reference to spiderman.
