US /ˈtrɪtiəm, ˈtrɪʃi-/
・UK /ˈtrɪtiəm/
tritium with the most wins it's hard to contain my excitement
This deuterium—hydrogen with one neutron—and tritium—hydrogen with two neutrons.
and tritium (hydrogen with two netrons) cool words, huh?
But not just any hydrogen will do - specific isotopes with extra neutrons, called deuterium and tritium, are needed to make the right reactions.
Deuterium is stable and can be found in abundance in seawater, though tritium is a bit trickier.
Inside the tokamak machine, two types of hydrogen gas, deuterium and tritium, are mixed together into a superhot state called a plasma.
deuterium and tritium,