Tritium is real !!

gorankar

gorankar
Yeah, tritium is a real thing. Very useful in maintaining nukes, or just making things glow without need for electricity. Collimators, survey heads, artillery sights, among many other military uses.
For civilians, well, to name a couple uses, I have tritium in my watch, tritium in my firearm, pellet, and even airsoft sights. (lol a US $2000 VCOG and $400 MRMR on a $450 airsoft rifle) To be fair I also use that same setup on my LMT L129 so don't think I am completely nuts.
Pretty sure every raw mat and elemental commodity is actually something real. Why make up a pretendium element when you can just use the one that actually exist?
 

Guyperson

Guyperson
Not only is tritium a promising candidate for fusion fuel, but we've been using the stuff for ages in more mundane ways like sealing it in phosphor-coated glass to make lights for things like gunsights.
The only thing made-up about it in Elite is how it's mined it from asteroids, where its short half-life would ensure that it never accumulates in any significant quantity there. In reality you'd get it straight from your local star like fuel scooping, or you'd generate it yourself.
 

danubezoe

danubezoe
Continually bombarding the hydrogen atoms in asteroid ice with particles unfiltered by an atmosphere would likely generate a higher concentration pf Tritium than terrestrial hydrogen.
 

insanephoton

insanephoton
gorankar said:
Yeah, tritium is a real thing. Very useful in maintaining nukes, or just making things glow without need for electricity. Collimators, survey heads, artillery sights, among many other military uses.
For civilians, well, to name a couple uses, I have tritium in my watch, tritium in my firearm, pellet, and even airsoft sights. (lol a US $2000 VCOG and $400 MRMR on a $450 airsoft rifle) To be fair I also use that same setup on my LMT L129 so don't think I am completely nuts.
Pretty sure every raw mat and elemental commodity is actually something real. Why make up a pretendium element when you can just use the one that actually exist?
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Pretty much all of the minerals are real except for Void Opals and Low Temperature Diamonds and even they have a basis on real things. Here is a Painite gemstone (highly polished and cut)
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Stealthie

Stealthie
here_it_comes said:
Yep, standard fare for good iron sights.
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I have two "red-dot" optics with Tritium illumination.
I also have Tritium tags on my house and car keys, so I can find 'em in the dark if I drop them.

My first encounter with Tritium was back in the army, when (a good while ago, now) people made a fuss about the SUSAT sight for the L85 rifle 'cos it had a Tritium source illuminating the reticle.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
St0rmFury said:
What happens when you inhale tritium?
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Depends somewhat on the amount. As it is a natural nuclide, you're probably inhaling some right now. Since it's hydrogen, it's usually not biologically active and therefore won't be incorporated. Tritiated water, on the other hand, can be a different matter.
But simply inhaling Tritium from e.g. a broken traser would, at the most, slightly increase your risk for lung cancer.
 

Gorrister

Gorrister
Well not good. It will mostly enriches in your testicles if you inhale it in very small doses. Giving you testicle cancer since it is radioactive.
I dont know why it stays there. Just saw a chart in toxicology and somehow found it is the most important information.
 

Gorrister

Gorrister
Cant find it anymore. Literature just say it increases breast cancer.

But its an old paper:
Rafnsson V, Sulem P, Tulinius H,
Hrafnkelsson J: Breast cancer risk
in airline cabin attendants: a ne-
sted case-control study in Iceland.
Occup Environ Med 2003; 60:
807-809
 
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Guyperson

Guyperson
St0rmFury said:
What happens when you inhale tritium?
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Probably cancer with enough exposure. Tritium is a beta emitter, so one of the neutrons in its nucleus spits out an electron at high speed and turns into a proton, which essentially changes the atom into helium. Beta radiation is relatively weak and can't even get through your skin, but if it's right up inside your airways when it gets emitted, it can damage DNA in nearby tissues.
 

Gorrister

Gorrister
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