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Originally Posted by mjohnson
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!
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Indeed. But a tiny bit goes quite a long way, thankfully.
