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The article implies that all helium-3 is either primordial or man-made. Every time a Uranium fissions it creates neutrons, that usually get absorbed by a nucleus. Sometimes that nucleus is a deuteron. Cosmic rays can also produce He-3 or tritium through a rather long list of interactions in addition to hitting a lithon. All of this is incredibly obvious and should be mentioned in a discussion of the origins of Helium-3 on planet Earth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Octaazacubane ( talk • contribs) 03:44, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
From the 'Manufacturing' section:
From the 'Lunar supplies' section:
I've amended the sentence from the manufacturing section to make it clear that helium-3 is only one of several possible fusion fuels by changing it to:
I'm pretty sure this is the correct resolution of this contradiction.
I had to remove an apostrophe from "it's" to turn it into the correct "its".
How come this has been ignored for so long? Are you all illiterate?
Why is "tralphium" listed as an alternate name in the helium-3 infobox? I cannot find any source that mentions this. Is this vandalism? Nrco0e ( talk) 01:32, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Tritium (H3) and tralphium (He3), serving as transition stages from mass 2 to mass 4, were always present in extremely small quantities, as is shown in the diagram.
Fermi and Turkevich considered twenty-eight possible nuclear reactions between neutrons, protons, deuterons, tritons (hydrogen-3 nuclei), and helium-3 nuclei. The latter were called tralpha particles by Gamow, who invented the name tralphium for helium-3; the names seem not to have been adopted by other physicists.
"The contribution from cosmic rays is negligible within all except the oldest regolith materials, and lithium spallation reactions are a lesser contributor than the production of 4He by alpha particle emissions. "
Regolith is an extremely illdefined material type on earth, and the second part compares pears with apples. 2001:9E8:2B1F:2200:C1B1:8906:795B:4076 ( talk) 09:11, 16 July 2023 (UTC)