Talk:Tritiated water
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Physical properties
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)
Drinking
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)
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HOT
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)
- That sounds very plausible... --Itub (talk) 10:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)