Sun Dec 20, 2009, 06:42pm
|
|
Official Forum Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 7,620
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by BillyMac
Hydrogen, or more specifically, Tritium,
Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I guessed the information above, but wasn't sure if Tritium occurred naturally, so I had to look up this part: Tritium occurs naturally due to cosmic rays interacting with atmospheric gases. In the most important reaction for natural tritium production, a fast neutron (which must have energy greater than 4 MeV) interacts with atmospheric nitrogen: 147N + n → 126C + 31T
And I wasn't sure about it's non-Latin root, so I also looked up this part: French hydrogène : Greek hudro-, hydro- + French -gène, -gen.
Did I win? Do I get to pick a prize from the top shelf?
|
No prize yet. My question refers to the element whose dominant isotope is radioactive.
__________________
Cheers,
mb
|