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Thu May-05-11 01:58 PM
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21. You are WRONG about tritium by the way

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Tritium was first predicted in the late 1920s by Walter Russell, using his "spiral" periodic table,<26> then produced in 1934 from deuterium, another isotope of hydrogen, by Ernest Rutherford, working with Mark Oliphant and Paul Harteck. Rutherford was unable to isolate the tritium, a job that was left to Luis Alvarez and Robert Cornog, who correctly deduced that the substance was radioactive.<27> Willard F. Libby discovered that tritium could be used for dating water, and therefore wine.<28>

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