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What are the three isotopes of hydrogen and what is the significance of these isotopes?

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Answer:

See below.

Step-by-step explanation:

They are Hydrogen 1 , Hydrogen 2 (also called deuterium) and Hydrogen 3 (tritium)

Hydrogen has no neutrons in the nucleus while deuterium has 1 and tritium has 2.

Deuterium has been used in the nuclear industry ( as heavy water , deuterium oxide) and as a compound lithium deuteride in the H bomb. Tritium is also used as a fuel in nuclear fusion reactions, and as a radioactive tracer.

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Answer:

21H deuterium (D), 31H is tritium (T), 11H is hydrogen

Step-by-step explanation:

11H: it has the greatest abundance, it has only one proton (it does not have neutrons).

21H (D): it has a proton and a neutron in its nucleus.

31H (T): it has a proton and two neutrons in its nucleus.

Remember that isotopes have the same atomic number, but a different mass number (elements in the number of neutrons differed).

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