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Tritium trinkets

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Scientists take nomenclature seriously, but tritium was named in a casual aside. Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette discuss the heavy, radioactive hydrogen isotope that is available for purchase online.

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  1. The Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Brett F. Thornton

  2. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

    Shawn C. Burdette

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Thornton, B.F., Burdette, S.C. Tritium trinkets. Nature Chem 10, 686 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0070-3

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