Dielectric constant and electrical conductivity of liquid D-T

✍ Scribed by P.C. Souers; E.M. Fearon; J.H. Iwamiya; P.E. Roberts; R.T. Tsugawa

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 447 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-2275
• DOI: 10.1016/0011-2275(80)90048-x

✦ Synopsis

The first dielectric constant and electrical conductivity measurements on liquid deuteriumtritium are reported. The samples, which contain 0.9, 8.8, and 98.3% tritium, are measured for complex capacitance at 1592 Hz with an effective electric field of 2830 Vm -1 at temperatures of 20 to 26 K. The tritium radioactivity converts the samples dielectrics, with dielectric constants as large as 4.5 and electrical conductivities of 200 x 10 -0 (~2m)" I. Carrier densities are about 1010 per mol sample; both free electrons and ions are apparently present.