Talk:Tritiated water

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Contents 1 Physical properties 2 Drinking 3 WikiProject class rating 4 HOT

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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).

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[edit] 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)