• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Tritium is one of those mildly radioactive compounds that can only emit up to alpha and beta rays

      An alpha particle is a helium-4 nucleus. Tritium is smaller than that, so it can’t undergo alpha decay. I think it just beta-decays into helium-3 by spitting out an electron from its nucleus.