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Among the environmental radioisotopes, tritium is the most attractive to those researchers who are studying the principles of water circulation in nature . It is a constituent of water molecules and, therefore, is a perfect water tracer . The interest in application of tritium for hydrological and meteorological purposes was increased greatly during the period of thermonuclear tests in 1953–1962, and also subsequently when a large amount of this artificially produced isotope had been injected into the atmosphere. The bomb-tritium, injected into the atmosphere by installments after each nuclear test , is a kind of fixed time mark of water involved in water cycling .
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Ferronsky, V.I., Polyakov, V.A. (2012). Tritium in Natural Waters. In: Isotopes of the Earth's Hydrosphere. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2856-1_13
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