Re: "Tritium on Ice"

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

Tritium exchanges with hydrogen in water much more readily than with hydrogen 

in a C-H bond.  In working with amino acids, the amine hydogen would exchange 

but the carbon-bound hydrogen didn't.  How would tritiated organic compounds 

be formed, except by deliberate organic synthesis in the laboratory? The 

tritium from cosmic ray production would be more likely to exchange with 

tritiated water.



A little less than 1% of the hydrogen in the world is deuterium, which is of 

course stable, but apparently affects enzyme activity.  How come folks aren't 

worrying about deuterated compounds?



Ruth



RuthF. Weiner, Ph. D.

ruthweiner@aol.com

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