This disproved the earlier theoretical contention by researchers at the Cavendish laboratory that it, and not Helium-3, should be stable and explained their inability to extract it from water.
In 1939, Luis Alvarez and Robert Cornog demonstrated the radioactive decay of this isotope, five years after its initial discovery by Harteck, Oliphant and Rutherford. This disproved the earlier theoretical contention by researchers at the Cavendish laboratory that it, and not Helium-3, should be stable and explained their inability to extract it from water. FTP, name this isotope of hydrogen, formed from the fusion of a proton and deuterium, with a half-life of 12.32 years.
In 1939, Luis Alvarez and Robert Cornog demonstrated the radioactive decay of this isotope, five years after its initial discovery by Harteck, Oliphant and Rutherford.
tritium