Hydrogen, what is it?
... radioactive. Urey and Murphy discovered Deuterium in 1932. Two years later tritium was discovered, it is unstable and has a half-life of 12.33 years. All three isotopes can be found in nature. For every six thousand hydrogen’s there is one deuterium, and tritium is even scarcer. Hydrogen is present everywhere in the universe and is estimated to make up three-quarters of the masse of the universe. Hydrogen is present in every organic substance but can also be found in gigantic amounts in are solar system, like Jupiter or in the sun. Even though hydrogen is a gas there little or none of it in the air because it leaves our atmosphere due to its light weight. On earth hydrogen is mostly under the form of water: 2H+O. Hydrogen is mainly used as rocket fuel, welding and in the production of methanol. But soon it will also be used in the productio...