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To: exDemMom
I wonder, couldn’t it be possible to extract the tritium for use in other applications?

What other applications? It is an isotope used in some night sights for firearms, and for a while it was a hydrogen bomb component candidate, but the relatively short half life (abt 12 years) makes it kind of useless for that too. Tritium is about as useful as the garbage in a landfill.

7 posted on 07/18/2017 4:19:08 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

It is used in medical research for a number of applications. For example, one can measure the kinetics of enzyme/substrate binding using tritiated substrates.

It is nice to work with because it has such low energy that the researcher has no worries of the beta particles penetrating the skin.


8 posted on 07/18/2017 4:27:06 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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