tritons in English
noun
1
a minor sea god usually represented as a man with a fish's tail and carrying a trident and shell trumpet.
2
the largest satellite of Neptune, the seventh closest to the planet, discovered in 1846. It has a retrograde orbit, a thin nitrogen atmosphere, and a diameter of 1,678 miles (2,700 km).
noun
1
a large mollusk that has a tall spiral shell with a large aperture, living in tropical and subtropical seas.
When he eventually bobbed back up at the surface, we swam over to join him and to admire his catch - a huge triton shell.
2
a nucleus of a tritium atom, consisting of a proton and two neutrons.
Protons, deuterons, and tritons would begin fusing with each other, releasing more energy, and initiating other fusion reactions among other hydrogen isotopes.
noun
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1. The diffusion coefficient of tritons in ice has been measured as a function of the concentration of NH4F.