Low pressure tritiation of molecules
US4313911A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 13, 1979 |
| Grant date | Feb 2, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 13, 1999 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S422/906
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Molecules are tritiated by depositing molecules of a substance to be tritiated on a supporting substrate in a vacuum chamber, and then subjecting the substance to low pressures of tritium gas. In a second embodiment of the invention, a substance is tritiated by placing the same near, but not in the path of, an electron beam which traverses a chamber; admitting tritium gas into the chamber; and subjecting the tritium to the electron beam thereby generating vibrationally excited tritium gas molecules which collide and react with the substance thus incorporating tritium atoms into the substance.
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