Talk:Tritiated water

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Physical properties[edit]

It'd be nice to have melting and boiling point figures for this — I know the melting point is about 5 Celsius, for example.

The problem is it's hard to get a pure sample of T2O to measure the properties because of self-radiolysis.96.54.53.165 (talk) 01:44, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Drinking[edit]

I saw there is a treatment for drinking too much of this, but it also said you would have the same effects if you drank the same amount of regular H2O. What are the effects of drinking say 16oz of this? Since there is no hydrogen I would assume that you can not re-hydrate (quench thirst) by drinking this, or is it like super water and you can drink less and help like Gatorade?

Actually, it has hydrogen, see Tritium. Also, drinking tritium water, unlike drinking deuterium water, is extremely dangerous because tritium is radioactive (while deuterium isn't).

A recommended treatment for tritium ingestion is to consume a large volume of a diuretic beverage such as tea or beer. The volume helps dilute tritiated water in the body, and the diuretic effect flushes it through your system. Don't have a reference, but this is what our radiation safety officer told us.96.54.53.165 (talk) 01:41, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 10:05, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HOT[edit]

Isn't the most used form tritiated water diluted in a larger quantity of light water? If so, most molecules containing tritium will be semi-tritiated water. --JWB (talk) 14:14, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds very plausible... --Itub (talk) 10:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of comments: 1 - The most used form of tritiated water is CANDU moderator heavy water. 2 - Even at very hot levels, tritiated water contains 'only' a few ppm of tritium (so yes, no molecule contains more than 1 tritium atom). However, since water is usually without tritium, adding tritium would make it tritiated. Similarly you wouldn't call batch of heavy water at 50% deuterium/protium, semi-heavy water.--209.167.53.3 (talk) 19:02, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Density[edit]

The density in the CRC manual 94th edition is 1.2138 g/cu cm at 25 deg C, apparently, where as 1.85g/cm3 given in the Wikipedia article. JBel (talk) 09:45, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"it is not dangerous externally because its beta particles are unable to penetrate the skin"[edit]

firstly, alpha emitters are supposedly harmless unless ingested. that's not even supposedly true of beta emitters like tritium.

secondly, the following youtube video makes a pretty compelling argument that alpha emitters are in fact dangerous even if not ingested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TwBUxxIC0?t=873 the basic gist of their argument is that beta particles don't need to fully penetrate skin to cause damage, just deep enough to reach dividing cells and along side this claim is evidence that alpha particles are capable of fully penetrating paper, plastic bags and chicken skin. 99.170.100.78 (talk) 04:49, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]