# How much Tritium **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 2, 2004, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-tritium/277673 "2004-12-02T09:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-tritium/277673/21 "2004-12-02T17:46:02Z")
Gee, with everyone doing all those half-life calculations, here are a few helpful sites: [http://www.1728.com/halflife.htm](http://www.1728.com/halflife.htm) [http://www.1728.com/decayexp.htm](http://www.1728.com/decayexp.htm) And I noticed this topic involved some conversions. Try this: [http://www.1728.com/convert.htm](http://www.1728.com/convert.htm) ---
**Author:** ![BadgerHunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@BadgerHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadgerHunter)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-tritium/277673/22 "2004-12-02T19:25:23Z")
Thats odd, because when I commuted to work (southern ontario) I quite often ended up driving behind the “tritium truck” as it was called. Now I assume there must have been a fair amount of tritium, although I have no clue where it was going. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-tritium/277673/23 "2004-12-02T21:28:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Tritium’s a gas. But didn’t Doc Oc have a “chunk” of it. WTF Tritium, as used in fusion experiments, is typically in small pellets. I’m not sure exactly how this is done, but the tritium could be chemically combined with other substances to form a liquid or solid, or it could be filled into a hollow shell of some solid material. Either way, that tritium pellet is going to contain some non-tritium matter, but that’s considered acceptable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-tritium/277673.md?page=1)