different between tritium vs tritiated

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ?????? (trítos, “third”) +? -ium.

Noun

tritium (plural tritiums)

1. (physics) A radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen (symbol T or ³₁H) having one proton and two neutrons.
2. An atom of this isotope.

Synonyms

• T (chemical symbol), hydrogen-3

Hypernyms

• hydrogen

Coordinate terms

• (isotopes of hydrogen): protium, deuterium, quadrium

Derived terms

• tritium oxide

Related terms

• triton

Translations

References

• Elementymology

Further reading

• tritium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ittrium

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (trítos, “third”) +? -ium.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tri?ti?um

Noun

tritium n (uncountable)

1. tritium

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tritium/, [?t?rit?ium]
• Rhymes: -itium
• Syllabification: tri?ti?um

Noun

tritium

1. (physics) tritium

Declension

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tri.ti.um/, [?t???t?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tri.t?si.um/, [?t??i?t??s?ium]

Noun

tritium n (genitive triti? or trit?); second declension

1. tritium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

English

Adjective

tritiated (comparative more tritiated, superlative most tritiated)

1. (chemistry) Describing a compound which has had some of its normal hydrogen (protium) replaced with the heavy isotope tritium.

Verb

tritiated

1. simple past tense and past participle of tritiate

See also

• protiated
• deuterated