Mark Houston Lively

US Patent:

43139116, Feb 2, 1982

Filed:

Nov 13, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/093304

Inventors:

Thomas F. Moran - Atlanta GA
James C. Powers - Atlanta GA
Mark O. Lively - Atlanta GA

Assignee:

Georgia Tech Research Institute - Atlanta GA

International Classification:

G21

US Classification:

422159

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.