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tritium

/ˈtɹɪt.i.əm/US/ˈtɹɪt.i.əm/

tritium noun: a radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen (symbol T, ³H or 31H) having one proton and two neutrons.

Noun

tritium (countable and uncountable, plural tritiums)

  1. A radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen (symbol T, ³H or 31H) having one proton and two neutrons.
  2. An atom of this isotope.
    • Electrochemical polymerization of the 1,2-tritiated monomer produced a polymer in which all of the tritiums were eliminated except for those located at the ends of the chains1998, Donald Lee Wise, Electrical and optical polymer systems, →ISBN, page 765

tritium meaning in Hindi and Tamil

tritium in Hindi

tritium
ट्राइटियम ṭrāiṭiyam

tritium in Tamil

திரைத்தியம், ட்ரைட்டுயம், டிரிட்டியம்

Synonyms of tritium

Forms of tritium

pluraltritiums

Origin of tritium

Borrowed from New Latin tritium, from Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “third”) + New Latin -ium. By surface analysis, trit- + -ium.

Words formed from tritium

Questions about tritium

What does tritium mean?
Tritium means a radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen (symbol T, ³H or 31H) having one proton and two neutrons.
What is tritium in Hindi?
Tritium in Hindi is ट्राइटियम (ṭrāiṭiyam). See Tritium meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tritium?
Tritium is a noun.
How do you pronounce tritium?
Tritium is pronounced /ˈtɹɪt.i.əm/ (UK).
What is the plural of tritium?
The plural of tritium is tritiums.

Words near tritium in the dictionary

  1. tritigenic
  2. tritimovirus
  3. tritimoviruses
  4. tritish
  5. trititanium
  6. tritium
  7. tritium oxide
  8. tritiums
  9. Tritiya
  10. tritkarren
  11. Tritlington

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tritium (page history and authors); ट्राइटियम (Hindi) (page history and authors); tritium (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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