triton

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  1. noun Any of various chiefly tropical marine gastropod mollusks of the family Cymatiidae, having a pointed, spirally twisted, often colorfully marked shell.
  2. noun The nucleus of tritium, consisting of two neutrons and one proton.

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  • They came to the moat and found it guarded by a triton: a merman with a triple-tipped spear. —  Question Quest
  • The nucleus of the very rare form of hydrogen which consists of one proton and two neutrons is called a triton, since that isotope of hydrogen is called tritium. —  GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION
  • The nucleus of helium of mass 3 (same mass as a triton) consists of two protons and one neutron and, since the He-3 isotope is called tralphium, is a tralpha particle. —  GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION
  • But one can expect two deuterons to collide, or a triton to collide with a proton. —  APRIL, 1953 Vol
  • A triton was a hulking humanoid, its finned limbs sending it around the frog as they advanced. —  VANCE MOORE
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  1. Latin Trītōn, Triton (from representations of the sea god holding a conch shell); see Triton.
  2. trit(ium) + -on1.
 

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