IIT JEE , AIEEE Forum - Chemistry , Inorganic Chemistry - Please take a look---Tritium the radioactive isotope of hydrogen

indr12365

Tritium is the radioactive isotope of hydrogen....then ,how can we give properties like bond enthalpy,boiling point etc..?

Also the bond enthalpy of T is 446.9 KJ/mol which is > that for hydrogen-435.9...then yar 4 a question like 'which species has the highest bond enthalpy for a single bond b/w 2 atoms how would u answer???!!

Please reply.....

ultimator

Many isotopes of different elements are radioactive.
We talk generally abt isotopes that to do not decay really fast.
For example, we wud not talk about some isotope which has a half life in milliseconds because it is very difficult to study it.

In case of tritium, as far as i knw, the half life is quiet high. That is, it decays at a slow rate. So, we can study its bond length and other properties.

ultimator

As for the second question, i think answer would be tritium only while many books may overlook that fact.

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