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Originally Posted by m21sniper
Tritium is not really rare. I have 2 firearms with tritium illuminated sights. They're not even expensive. You can get the capsules for just a couple bucks.
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Yes, your sights aren't too expensive. Neither were the tubes I just had replaced on the hands of one of my watches. Neither contain much H3, though. Trijicon claims 0.018 curies in each tube, so that works out to about 180 nanograms of tritium.
One reference states that the DOE used to sell it for $10k/gram and Canada sold it for $30k/g. Same source estimates the cost of new production to be ~$100k/g, or roughly $50 million a pound.
Dat's some pricey stuff!