The uranium isotopes start decaying as zircon crystallizes, transforming into lead isotopes at a steady rate.
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During drought conditions, lighter water isotopes evaporate first, and the heavier isotopes are left to be trapped in gypsum.
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The special isotopes used—atoms of differing isotopes have the same number of protons but differing numbers of neutrons—are rare.
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It could help explain why certain oxygen isotopes found inside lunar rocks are identical to isotopes found in the Earth's ozone layer, according to Terada.
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In a supernova explosion, certain nickel isotopes (56Ni) will first decay into cobalt isotopes (56Co) and then again into a more stable iron isotope (56Fe).
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"We can't describe many isotopes we observe today," the flavors that different atoms of elements might come in, with isotopes differing only in the number of neutrons in their nuclei.
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"The oxygen isotopes we measure from the chironomids record past lake water isotopes in which the bugs grew, and that lake water comes from precipitation falling over the lake," Lasher said.
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Oxygen isotopes collected from fossil teeth told a similar story.
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Like carbon nuclei, those of strontium have two stable isotopes.
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Another medical use is to create isotopes for diagnosing cancers.
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Mayak accounts for half of Russian exports of radioactive isotopes.
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The plant at Mayak reprocesses spent fuel and produces isotopes.
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"Isotopes from the bones previously suggested that the diets of saber-toothed cats and dire wolves overlapped completely, but the isotopes from their teeth give a very different picture," DeSantis said in a statement.
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While oxygen isotopes are associated with larger, more massive stars, carbon isotopes are associated with smaller, intermediate-mass stars, Zhi-Yu Zhang, lead researcher and astronomer from the University of Edinburgh, said in the statement .
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Carbon has various isotopes, determined by how many neutrons they have.
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To the day Fukushima is leaking dangerous isotopes into the ocean.
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Other isotopes — such as cesium-137 — have far longer half-lives.
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It allows the researchers to look for only specific atomic isotopes.
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Centrifuges are allowed there for other purposes, like producing stable isotopes.
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A technology called Energy Balance measures the carbon isotopes in exhaled breath.
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Users blow into the bag to capture the carbon isotopes from breath.
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It will focus on experimentation like building compounds or tackling stable isotopes.
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Among those stellar remains are isotopes, or variants, of elements like iron.
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Lithium, like uranium, has two important isotopes: lithium-6 and lithium-7.
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Fossil fuels have a distinct fingerprint in the isotopes of their carbon.
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"The chromium isotopes are the nail in the coffin," Dr. Schmitz said.
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Nitrates contain oxygen and nitrogen, which come in different forms, or isotopes.
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Certain isotopes of argon radioactively decay more or less depending on the season.
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Inhaling even a dust speck of one of those isotopes can be dangerous.
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The researchers also analyzed the variants, or isotopes, of carbon within the graphite.
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In nature, uranium ore consists of about 23.7 percent uranium-22013 isotopes and .
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There are reactors designed to destroy isotopes that could be made into weapons.
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Dansgaard was by that point one of the pioneers of measuring oxygen isotopes.
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"As human consumers of fish, we would internalize [radioactive] isotopes," he told me.
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Some lethal isotopes in nuclear waste have half-lives of thousands of years.
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Atoms of a single element but of different masses are known as isotopes.
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The isotopes suggested the atmospheric changes they knew happened over time on Mars.
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Same for the Pawtucket Red Sox, the Arkansas Travelers and the Albuquerque Isotopes.
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During that time, it carried out routine training exercises using dangerous radioactive isotopes.
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In nature, uranium ore consists of 22014 percent of uranium-238 isotopes and .
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Isotopes of atoms that can split apart (undergo fission) are described as fissile.
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The gas is then pumped through membranes, the idea being that lighter isotopes of uranium would diffuse faster than heavier isotopes (fluorine has only one naturally occurring isotope, so any differences in the mass of the gas come from uranium).
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Radio-isotopes needed for cancer treatments could not be imported after Britain leaves Euratom.
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Zinc has five stable isotopes — versions of the element that all have different masses.
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Those isotopes found on Earth can be dated from the sediment they are in.
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Most haunting are her accounts of how radioactive isotopes progressed through the food supply.
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Harmful isotopes were carried by the winds as far as Ireland within a week.
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On dairy farms, Silver found the isotopes a full three feet below the surface.
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The team found that the cerulean time capsules contained isotopes of neon and helium.
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At their lab, the scientists analyzed the flakes for sulfur, oxygen and strontium isotopes.
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The carbon 21 and carbon 2750 isotopes are stable, while carbon 21600 is unstable.
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And the oxygen isotopes indicated that conditions were much wetter in the region then.
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"The production rate is very small for these isotopes," concedes Riken physicist Toshiyuki Kubo.
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The isotopes of oxygen,53O and 18O, vary in ratio according to the local climate.
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Likewise, when people say "hydrogen bomb," they mean a fusion device using various hydrogen isotopes.
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Uranium mined from the Earth is composed of two isotopes: U-22015 and U-235.
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"These isotopes are circulating through the ecosystem in ways that we never imagined," explained Stensil.
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Early particle accelerators let us discover new isotopes and new elements of the periodic table.
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And that's another advantage of Shrivastava's technology: He says it can emulate stress without isotopes.
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The United States has suffered shortages of imaging isotopes, the most severe one in 2010.
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There was only one way the water isotopes could have ended up in mother's milk.
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Analysis of the isotopes themselves painted a 120,0003-year-old picture of North America's climate past.
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But it cannot fully replace on-site sampling because carbon isotopes cannot be identified from afar.
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Unlike carbon, the ratio of these isotopes in living things reflects local geology rather than photosynthesis.
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Plants around the world absorbed those isotopes during photosynthesis, effectively turning them into a time stamp.
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He was demoted to Triple-A Albuquerque in June and made two starts for the Isotopes.
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To date, they have found no detectable levels of radioactive isotopes in kelp or seaweed tissue.
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Since then, other such isotopes have returned to pre-testing levels — but not, apparently, chlorine-36.
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Instead, officials say, it is being used mostly for research and the production of medical isotopes.
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Dust and oxygen isotopes encased in the cores provided a detailed climate record going back eons.
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Isotopes are forms of an element that have different atomic masses but retain similar chemical properties.
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What they do according to O*NET: Prepare radioactive isotopes for use in diagnostic medical procedures.
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Testing carbon isotopes helped reveal whether the pottery held meat, fish, milk or fermented milk product.
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This is what a conference of black holes, isotopes, fossils, ghosts and nerve endings sounds like.
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As the centrifuge spins, the heavier isotopes push harder against its wall than the lighter ones.
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Canary analyzes carbon isotopes in the patient's breath to determine if there are changes in their metabolism.
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Today, most fusion reactors use a mix of hydrogen isotopes called deuterium and tritium as nuclear fuel.
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Prussian blue tablets intended to remove different radioactive isotopes from fallout victims are sold only by prescription.
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Atoms of a given element with different numbers of neutrons are known as "isotopes" of that element.
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Levels of those isotopes vary between soils, and different varieties of plant absorb them in different quantities.
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At 5 megawatts, it produces no electricity, only radiation to make irradiated isotopes for use in medicine.
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"It may be that we won't get much in the way of isotopes and particles," Rofer said.
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Some were enriched, and some were depleted, meaning they contained evidence of water bearing different hydrogen isotopes.
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The name comes from the fact that it uses a fusion of tritium and deuterium, hydrogen isotopes.
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As the rays smashed into the grains, they triggered the creation of neon isotopes inside the stardust.
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For plutonium, all isotopes are fissile, but some are easier to use in nuclear weapons than others.
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Things get a little trickier when the technique is leveraged to measure isotopes (which describes to instances of the same element, only with different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei), but when it comes to measuring uranium at a distance, being able to parse isotopes makes all the difference.
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The graphite's blend of carbon isotopes hints at biological origins, although the finding is—once again—hotly debated.
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The researchers sought to link various plants with the levels of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in their teeth.
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The materials are refuse from the production of medical isotopes used in cancer treatments, including highly enriched uranium.
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Instead, they suggest it might have been an implosion device boosted by tritium and deuterium gas (hydrogen isotopes).
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Neutrons are also the reason that an element can have atoms of different atomic weights, known as isotopes.
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They found that the types of potassium isotopes measured on the moon and the Earth are slightly different.
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The country has numerous nuclear reactors used for research, some of which develop medical isotopes for cancer treatments.
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Centrifuges are allowed there for other purposes, like producing stable isotopes here Iran began enriching there on Nov.
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Isotopes are versions of an element that have very slight differences, allowing the researchers to differentiate between them.
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Another thing they apparently love is The Simpsons, which is why, when the Calgary Cannons moved to the ABQ, 67 percent of its fans voted to change the name to the Isotopes, bringing to pass a great fear of Homer's when his beloved Springfield Isotopes plan a move to the Southwest.
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By tallying when those heavy isotopes were more common, the researchers were able to create rainfall and humidity estimates.
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The Albuquerque Isotopes became the Mariachis de Nuevo Mexico and the Round Rock Express became the Round Rock Chupacabras.
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Uranium has two isotopes, 235U and 238U, that differ by three in the number of neutrons in their nuclei.
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Despite its low atomic number (21955) it has no stable isotopes, and is thus found only transiently in nature.
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There are two stable types of carbon, called isotopes, that naturally exist on Earth, a heavier and lighter type.
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So after sampling atmospheric carbon dioxide and comparing the isotopes, scientists know they have fossil fuels dead to rights.
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We know this supernova happened because it left fingerprints in the seafloor in the form of iron-60 isotopes.
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Analysis of isotopes has been tested as a way to tell if a plant was harvested from the wild.
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Because of nuclear testing done in the 1950s, older people were exposed to more radioactive isotopes than younger people.
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The key to their analysis was looking for isotopes, or evidence of oxygen that's been trapped in the rock.
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When looking at the two meteorites, the researchers conducted a chemical analysis seeking out two types of hydrogen isotopes.
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The Black Beauty and Allan Hills meteorites suggested two different sources of water on Mars, based on their isotopes.
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Chinese scientist Chien-Shiung Wu played an important role in separating uranium isotopes for the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
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Navy officers also sprayed the vessel with radioactive isotopes like bromine-82, bromine-80, potassium-42, and sodium-24.
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Greenpeace, the conservation group, issued a statement saying the presence of these isotopes suggested cesium 137 was also released.
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Greenpeace, the conservation group, issued a statement saying the presence of these isotopes suggested cesium 137 was also released.
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Iran has always insisted its nuclear program is for purely peaceful purposes like electricity and the production of medical isotopes.
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This, among other things, covers "boosted fission devices," which are mostly fission, but use hydrogen isotopes to juice things up.
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On top of this, some of them contain layers of volcanic ash that can be dated from radioactive isotopes within.
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By examining ratios of carbon isotopes, the scientists found saltwater incursion into the area, which coincided with the village's abandonment.
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In the mid-303th century, radioactive carbon isotopes were spewed into the atmosphere as a result of aboveground nuclear tests.
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Both sites date back about 1.1 billion years to the late Mesoproterozoic era, and they contain matching hafnium isotopes readings.
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Unlike other atomic isotopes, this one — developed by a neighborhood nuclear physicist — absorbs energy, doubling in size every 12 hours.
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Russia's state weather agency subsequently said it had found the radioactive isotopes of strontium, barium and lanthanum in test samples.
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The lander will also have instruments capable of detecting isotopes like helium-3, a potential fuel for future fusion reactors.
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The mix of those isotopes is consistent among living things, but once organic matter dies its carbon 21900 atoms decay.
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There may be radioactive isotopes from burned-up antique crockware, cupboards of incinerated household cleaners, and asbestos from old siding.
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In shells like these, Dr. Planavsky explained, proportions of the boron isotopes shift when the acidity of the oceans rises.
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"It was fully grown, and from the isotopes it looks like it has eaten corn its whole life," says Sharpe.
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Highly enriched uranium is used for civilian purposes, particularly to produce neutrons in research reactors or isotopes for medical research.
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Revenge, even when it is served with rare, radioactive isotopes, is just another detail in a picture that darkened ages ago.
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"We found that there was a really big difference in oxygen isotopes between these three sets of samples — unambiguous," said MacLeod.
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Those isotopes have half-lives of around 30 years, meaning it takes 30 years for half of their atoms to disintegrate.
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Flourishing firms nearby include a maker of medical isotopes, big warehouses for retailers, and popular cafés such as the Bodacious Brew.
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In addition, the zinc that remained was preferentially composed of heavy isotopes, which do not evaporate as easily, the researchers said.
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By examining the isotopes contained in Martian carbonates, we may be able to learn if they, too, were biological in origin.
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The researchers measured the ratio of isotopes of potassium in the samples, and compared them to eight samples of Earth's mantle.
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To make electricity, heat produced by the fusion of hydrogen isotopes is used to spin steam turbines in the conventional way.
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Today, the land masses across Earth soak up those heavier oxygen isotopes from water, preserved in wet soils rich in clay.
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One of his best-known pictures shows women monitoring the controls of a calutron, which was used to separate uranium isotopes.
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Isotopes of an element are chemically identical, but their different weights mean the physical properties of molecules containing them may differ.
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In particular, monitors will be looking for isotopes of a gas called xenon, which is typically present in H-bomb reactions.
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You can test the bones and teeth for the presence of certain isotopes, so you can get an idea of diet.
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The high-level waste is trickier, particularly because some of those isotopes are going to remain radioactive for (in practical terms) ever.
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These isotopes differ in the number of neutrons in the oxygen atom and, according to MacLeod, behave slightly differently from one another.
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But the analysis of the isotopes also indicated that she did not live in Beaver County in the months before her death.
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An object larger than 13 times the mass of Jupiter is typically massive enough for heavier hydrogen isotopes to undergo nuclear fusion.
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Isotopes of potassium and argon in Apollo samples suggested bits of the moon suddenly melted some 500 million years after it formed.
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By studying the oxygen isotopes in the teeth, the researchers were able to detect multi-year patterns in regards to environmental exposure.
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"The discovery of specific carbon isotopes within the samples is great, but as Retallack himself admitted, the "evidence for life is circumstantial.
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Scientists have estimated the island's location based on the most stable existing elements and isotopes, and Shaughnessy believes she is getting closer.
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They then used numerous climate "proxies," including pollen, microfossils and stable isotopes, to tease out any environmental changes that could be responsible.
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Subtler variations in carbon isotopes also hinted at which variety of hops had produced a given flower, but that effect was weaker.
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"We don't see any difference between the Earth's and the moon's oxygen isotopes; they're indistinguishable," said Edward Young, the study's lead author.
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"Isotopes tell you how much is coming from microbes versus old, thermogenic sources, carbon that's been cooked by the earth," says Bruhwiler.
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To date, only four moscovium isotopes have been produced in a lab, each popping into existence for a few fractions a second.
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The United States defines special nuclear material as plutonium, uranium-233, or uranium enriched in the isotopes uranium-233 or uranium-235.
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Henehan and his team were able to examine levels of chemical isotopes in those shells, which offered clues about the plankton died.
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One, the EXO-200, involves a giant machine full of 110 kilograms of liquid xenon that measures the decay of xenon isotopes.
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The oxygen isotopes appear in carbon dioxide exhaled by subjects, which allowed the researchers to estimate the average amount exhaled each day.
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But the powerful aboveground nuclear bomb tests of the mid-21958s created even more carbon 19833 isotopes out of that atmospheric nitrogen.
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Ice cores from Greenland have long been used to track global climate change, which is recorded in the frozen water's oxygen isotopes.
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The roots of food, causing radioactive isotopes to invade the body of those who consume them, absorb cesium 137 and strontium 90.
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Hin and his team looked specifically at the magnesium isotopes in chondrites, meteorites that haven't been altered since they landed here on Earth.
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The radioactive isotopes of plutonium used in nuclear-power plants must be stored for tens of thousands of years before they are safe.
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They needed something to account for the extra bits that would have more of the lighter isotopes and fewer of the heavier ones.
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The TGO is also capable of looking at the ratio of different carbon isotopes present in methane which can help elucidate its origin.
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By examining the abundance of nickel and cobalt isotopes as well, the team learned that the cosmic rays were accelerated by multiple explosions.
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"The curveball is it's got uranium and all the daughter isotopes," said Justin Bauer, head of resource planning and development at Olympic Dam.
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Mr Ocvirk and Dr Kosir reckon those results could be firmed up by including isotopes of oxygen, hydrogen and lead in the analysis.
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By studying isotopes, or chemical signatures, found in the teeth and bones of pigs, the researchers can determine where the pigs were raised.
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But she argues that isotopes of fossil fuel methane occupy a very narrow range of signatures, limited in its overlap with microbial sources.
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And ratios of stable isotopes (non-radioactive atoms of the same element that contain different numbers of neutrons) are indicative of different regions.
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It turns Fordow into a "nuclear, physics and technology center" where centrifuges are used for purposes other than enrichment, like producing stable isotopes.
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They measured two different variants — or isotopes — of potassium: potassium-41, the heaviest version of the element, and potassium-39, the lightest version.
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So measuring the carbon and silicon isotopes each grain contains allowed Heck&aposs team to determine what type of star it came from.
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Kruijer and the team of researchers were able to differentiate between the two reservoirs of material by measuring isotopes in the meteorite samples.
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There's the production of medical isotopes, and research reactors, and other various chunks of nuclear material floating around for one reason or another.
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Read more: It looks like the Russians are trying to hide the truth about that nuclear accident in NyonoksaRussian authorities claimed that the incident happened "during tests of a liquid propulsion system involving isotopes," (Russian state media initially said a rocket engine exploded), but Bohmer reportedly explained that short-lived radioactive isotopes would not have been produced by that sort of test.
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Which from Gothic morphs through tensegrity to floating feelers sucking in carbon and oozing isotopes of Greek Fire, trading lung waste for jet fuel.
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This result could "provide a previously unknown channel for generating" rarer "isotopes of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen naturally on Earth," according to the paper.
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As you'd expect, there's more work to be done determining just how many of these isotopes lightning creates and what else lightning might create.
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The study analyzed five isotopes, making it "the largest dataset of multiple isotope methods yet applied to fauna in archeological research," the team said.
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The spacecraft would also hunt for life directly by profiling amino acids and carbon isotopes, which occur in specific patterns when microorganisms are present.
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Peeling back layers of cells to access the oldest tissue, the researchers measured the abundance of carbon-14 isotopes to determine the animals' ages.
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Each of these has several isotopes (atoms of the same element whose nuclei have different numbers of neutrons within, and therefore different atomic weights).
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To study the oxygen and carbon isotopes embedded with the rocks, the researchers used laser ablation and a tiny drill called an ion microprobe.
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His team now plans to use other instruments to search for rarer, heavier cosmic ray isotopes, which might shed more light on the matter.
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Scientists commonly use ratios of different elemental isotopes preserved in rock samples as proxies to understand the elements on Earth during its early years.
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The United States provides Belgium with highly enriched uranium — making it particularly concerned about radioactive materials landing in terrorist hands — and then buys isotopes.
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Its lead actors are the DNA and chemical isotopes in the bones, the slashes and slices that showed his awful prolonged death in battle.
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Russia's state weather agency said on Monday it had found the radioactive isotopes of strontium, barium and lanthanum in test samples after the accident.
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The age of a band can be determined by analysis of the radioactive isotopes within it, particularly those of uranium and its decay products.
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It turns Fordow into a "nuclear, physics and technology centre" where centrifuges are used for purposes other than enrichment, such as producing stable isotopes.
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Other research that uses two helium-53 isotopes instead of a deuterium-helium-3 mix has also proven to be remarkably efficient in small reactors.
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Researchers from the University of Manchester, the birthplace of graphene, reckon it might be the perfect mesh with which to filter different isotopes of hydrogen.
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Both avocados and bananas are pretty high in potassium, which contains radioactive isotopes, but the benefits of potassium far outweigh any risks it might pose.
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In fact, radioactive isotopes in animal tissue reflect this "bomb pulse," which has become a well-established time stamp for age validation of marine animals.
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It was at this time that humans started testing nuclear weapons regularly, producing a spike in the concentration of carbon-14 isotopes in our atmosphere.
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The bill would require a local cannabis research school to develop this marijuana-tracking technology, using either chemical agents, isotopes, nanotechnology, or other biological identifiers.
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But there are other elemental isotopes in these rocks, such as lithium, beryllium, and boron, which can further reveal events in the Solar System's past.
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Using oxygen and strontium isotopes, for example, the scientists should be able to discern diet and the geographical origin of the children and the llamas.
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Plants incorporate different ratios of these isotopes based upon ambient conditions such as precipitation and humidity, thus providing yet another clue to their geographic origin.
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What they do,according to O*NET: Prepare, administer, and measure radioactive isotopes in therapeutic, diagnostic, and tracer studies using a variety of radioisotope equipment.
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For example, on Earth, scientists can study rocks and determine a similar ratio of hydrogen isotopes in all of them that translates to ocean water.
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The number of protons defines the element to which an atom belongs, but the number of neutrons may vary, the variants being known as isotopes.
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TAE's approach to fusion is unique in the industry, in that it uses boron and hydrogen particles for the reaction, in lieu of hydrogen isotopes.
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Xenon has three times as many isotopes as neon which means scientists can use it to reconstruct the meteorite's interior composition with much more specificity.
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"To confirm if an event is nuclear we need the smoking gun, which is the radio isotopes that are released from a blast," Zerbo said.
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A millionth of a gram is potentially harmful, and because the isotopes have a half-life of 252,260 years, the danger effectively never goes away.
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Krasznahorkay's team first developed the X17 hypothesis years ago, after conducting an experiment that involved shooting protons at isotopes, which are variants of chemical elements.
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The original disaster sparked panics in China and on the United States West Coast, where radioactive isotopes have been detected in the California wine crop.
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According to Edward Young, a co-author of the new study, it's "almost unheard of" for two bodies to have the same ratio of oxygen isotopes.
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The more of these isotopes a tree takes up, the more diluted its concentration of carbon-14 will be, and the older the dates will be.
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They examined isotopes from oxygen molecules that remained in the woman's teeth and hair to determine where Jane Doe may have spent her last few months.
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Valley chipped some out of Western Australia's Jack Hills and found oxygen isotopes that suggested the crystal formed from material that was altered by liquid water.
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On analyzing a calcium-aluminum-rich inclusion from the Efremovka meteorite, the researchers found an excess of two other isotopes, called beryllium-9 and lithium-7.
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Now my own six-year-old boy spends hours poring over the ads for mass spectrometers and composite Pu-Oy pits in Missiles and Isotopes Monthly .
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Sotera also sold its medical isotopes business to BWX Technologies Inc earlier this year, which it said allowed it to focus on faster-growing sterilization technologies.
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It matched one of the isotopes of xenon on Earth that scientists had been unable to source – strongly suggesting it came from comets just like 67P.
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Organisms start out with similar building blocks that are then altered into heavy and light isotopes, which leave behind "a telltale signal for life," he said.
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Delays that pose an inconvenience for other commercial goods are existential threats in the daily global relay race of medical isotopes that disappear hour by hour.
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The scientists were helped in their analysis by different isotopes found in methane emissions from natural sources, compared to emissions from the production of fossil fuels.
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Generally, living things like to use the more lightweight isotopes, so an abundance of carbon 23.9 over carbon 22016 can be used to infer past biological activity.
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The analysis revealed that the victims in the mass grave had different isotopes in their remains compared with other people buried in the settlement, the researchers said.
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As the volume's editor, Carpenter has gathered the work of 60 artists and 12 writers working around the immateriality of radioactive isotopes, on site and in theory.
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Using sheets of graphene, the researchers have been trying separate different isotopes of hydrogen—plain old hydrogen and deuterium, which has one extra neutron at its core.
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A. A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, combines hydrogen isotopes under extremely high temperatures to form helium, in a process known as nuclear fusion.
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Others, however, might claim that it's an H-bomb if it uses hydrogen isotopes for the bomb part, regardless what contributes what portion of the final energy.
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Though previous studies using isotopes (chemical elements) suggested life on Earth dates back 3.8 billion years, this is the first time that physical evidence supports these findings.
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Related: Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone Is Now a Thriving Wildlife Habitat Researchers identified nuclear isotopes caesium-22011 as a particular concern because it is easily absorbed by plants.
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Then they analyzed the fossil for isotopes of the elements oxygen and chromium to determine if it had a composition that was similar to any existing meteorite.
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They used a gold-standard technique called doubly labeled water, in which hydrogen and oxygen are replaced with isotopes that trace the body's production of carbon dioxide.
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Large amounts of carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere would likely create minerals high in alkalines and nitrogen isotopes that remain behind in craters on the surface.
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TVEL said specialists have been working on a project since 2017 to modify centrifuge cascades to produce two stable isotopes that can be used for medicinal purposes.
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The study of air bubbles, dust and ash particles, isotopes, gases and organic materials frozen in the ice helps scientists understand past climates and predict future ones.
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However, a new analysis performed by Young and his team shows that the Earth and moon actually have a very similar — if not identical — ratio of oxygen isotopes.
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Rather than a mixture of isotopes like those found at Daya Bay, PROSPECT will observe antineutrinos from an Oak Ridge National Laboratory reactor that uses pure uranium-235.
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Isotopes like uranium-235 and plutonium-239 easily undergo fission — when a neutron hits their nucleus, the nucleus splits, releasing more neutrons and a tremendous amount of energy.
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Meteorites can be classified by analysing their chromium and oxygen isotopes; the makeup of the new meteorite, known as Österplana 65 (Öst 65), falls outside of existing types.
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That interested Dr de Rosales and Dr Gabizon, because these three elements all have radioactive isotopes that release a particle called a positron as part of their decay.
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To do so, they sprayed CO2 with a very specific mix of carbon isotopes into the forest canopy, and traced its fate over the course of five years.
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According to an editorial in Nature, dissonant chords are "the unstable isotopes of Western music," and often sound like they want to revert back to something more stable.
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In the lab, they used radiocarbon dating to estimate "death dates" for the plants, measuring the amounts of naturally occurring isotopes that decayed at certain rates over time.
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First, regardless of their age, the ratio within them of two stable isotopes of oxygen (16O and 18O) indicates what the average temperature was when they were alive.
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On May18, 2010, the day of the mastectomy, Miller was given a shot containing radioactive isotopes so the doctor could perform a procedure called a sentinel node biopsy.
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The researchers established a range of strontium isotopes by piecing together how much was available in a given area based on strontium content in soil and vegetation samples.
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As a result, scientists can determine the age of dead organic matter up to tens of thousands of years old by calculating the ratio of those carbon isotopes.
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ONE FEAR raised by those who oppose Britain's leaving the European Union without a deal is that the import of radioactive isotopes for medicine would be at risk.
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By firing very short and intense laser pulses at uranium isotopes, the researchers were able to turn both the uranium particles and the air around them into plasma.
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That means aircraft might not be allowed to fly and radio isotopes for cancer treatments might not be imported, while both food imports and car exports could be interrupted.
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In their new study, the researchers analyzed samples of the GISP2280 bedrock to determine the abundance of two of the rarest isotopes on Earth, beryllium-22 and aluminum-4003.
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Unacquainted with scientific concepts, only isotopes of which he was aware played at Duff Stadium, where uncanny knowledge of Southwestern palate exposed team’s impending move to Albuquerque.
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Lund University geologist Raimund Muscheler and his colleagues presented evidence in the form of elevated levels of beryllium-10 and chlorine-36 isotopes embedded within ancient Greenland ice cores.
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Radioactive readings of one of those isotopes, strontium-90, considered dangerous to human health, were detected at 600,000 becquerels per liter in some tanks, 20,000 times the legal limit.
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The physics were complex but the outcome was simple: Within the machine, the heavy and light oxygen isotopes from the ice sample could be detected and their concentrations measured.
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On May 18, 2010, the day of the mastectomy, Miller was given a shot containing radioactive isotopes so the doctor could perform a procedure called a sentinel node biopsy.
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By analyzing the carbon isotopes of the methane found in the atmosphere, a variety of recent studies have tried to deduce the different sources of the recent methane spike.
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Radioactive readings of one of those isotopes, strontium-90, considered dangerous to human health, were detected at 600,000 becquerels per litre in some tanks, 20,000 times the legal limit.
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The official whose family was watched works at Mol, one of five research reactors worldwide that produce 90 percent of the radio isotopes used for medical diagnosis and treatment.
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The Rosalind Franklin rover's instrument could help identify carbon and sulfur isotopes, atoms representative of chemical elements but different in mass because they contain a different amount of neutrons.
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Entrepreneurs have long dreamed of enterprises like mining the moon for precious metals and helium isotopes that could be fuel for future fusion reactors, but success has been elusive.
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It was clear that the ratio of lead isotopes in the honey the team studied did not match the ratios detected in the nearby Fraser River or local sediments.
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The isotopes were Strontium-91, Barium-139, Barium-140 and Lanthanum-140, which have half-lives of 9.3 hours, 83 minutes, 12.8 days and 40 hours respectively, it said.
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Isotopes within the enamel stored information about their diet and wear patterns on the teeth showed if the predators were only eating meat or picking it off of bones.
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The observations of high pH and nitrogen isotopes in the Nordlinger Ries crater suggest these indicators serve as a "powerful proxy" on the Martian surface, according to the study.
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Dr. Henehan and his team measured the boron, and found that the relative proportions of two isotopes of the element changed abruptly right at the time of the impact.
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Following World War II, the Navy used Treasure Island to conduct training academies in which radiation-safety officers were asked to handle isotopes like radium-226 and cesium-137.
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And though the researchers couldn't guess what the bear would have looked like, they know it was a plant-eater by analyzing carbon and nitrogen isotopes present in the fossil.
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A related problem has to do with the byproduct of deuterium and tritium fusion: High energy neutrons that rocket out of the nuclei of these isotopes during the fusion process.
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Such shipments are tightly controlled by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which oversees the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), a government-owned corporation that manufactures medical isotopes in Canada.
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Importantly, the new study has the potential to solve a lingering mystery about differences observed in isotopes of potassium, phosphorus, and various rare-earth elements between the Earth and Moon.
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"We wanted to embark on a journey that would be all about what New Mexico is all about," Isotopes General Manager John Traub said of the one-night name change.
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That is because different temperatures cause water molecules containing different oxygen isotopes to evaporate from the sea at different rates; what gets left behind is what shells are formed from.
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The scientists were looking for drops in the levels of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur isotopes in the bones — which would indicate changes in the mammoths' diets due to environmental changes.
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Russia's state weather agency has reportedly said that it found radioactive isotopes in test samples after an accident at a military test site that killed five people earlier this month.
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Cesium isn't used to manufacture nuclear weapons, but the Nuclear Threat Initiative calls it the "most dangerous of all radioactive isotopes" and claims it can be used in dirty bombs.
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Eight of the nine different isotopes of xenon on Earth have been traced to different parts of the cosmos that came together as the planet and our solar system formed.
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A minor league baseball team, the Area 51s, that ranked No. 14 out of 16 teams in attendance last season, a full 403,000 fans per game behind the Albuquerque Isotopes.
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The first, nuclear fusion, involves crashing hydrogen isotopes together at high speeds so that they fuse together, releasing energy; this is the same process through which the sun produces heat.
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They were specifically looking for "light hydrogen" and "heavy hydrogen," because the ratio of these two isotopes can be used to understand the origin of water traces found in rocks.
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The agency then published a statement saying that "the discovery of even insignificant concentrations of radioactive isotopes on Russian territory speaks to the high effectiveness" of the Russian monitoring system.
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The bottles are then sent on to a lab at the University of Colorado, where another team of researchers measures different isotopes in the gases to help identify their sources.
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By tracing the increase in the meteorites of certain isotopes, the researchers were able to determine that extraterrestrial dust began to reach Earth about 50,000 years after the asteroid collision.
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Uranium is a radioactive element that, if its isotopes are separated and some enriched to a higher level of purity, can constitute weaponized fissile material for a potential nuclear weapon.
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Analysis of isotopes in the bones, which looked at what had been in drinking water the men consumed, indicated they are likely from New York or New England, Bies said.
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As University of Michigan nuclear engineer Igor Jovanovic and his colleagues discovered, this also works to determine the difference between uranium isotopes, even when they're free-floating in the air.
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Hees is also part of a team proposing a new space mission called STE-Quest, in which they plan to measure two different isotopes of rubidium atoms in free fall.
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Researchers found since the 1930s that they could bombard uranium with neutrons to create heavier isotopes and form new elements that have never before been seen in nature, like plutonium.
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In comparing isotopes of an element like uranium, the atomic number stays the same, but the isotope number — the sum of the protons and neutrons in a nucleus — can differ.
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As for the claim that this soil may have harbored early microbial life, the researchers say this evidence comes in the form of light carbon isotopes with signatures consistent with photosynthesis.
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Colorado purchased the contract of OF Mike Tauchman from Triple-A Albuquerque, optioned RHP Jairo Diaz to the Isotopes and transferred OF David Dahl (rib) to the 60-day disabled list.
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It might be possible to learn more about their diet by searching for isotopes in the fossilized teeth, Melstrom said, but that comes at a high price to the specimens themselves.
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Dr Wei studied carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the bones of a dozen ancestral pandas, dating from between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago, and compared them with those of modern pandas.
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The report also raises concerns that wash-off of existing isotopes into the ocean would be exacerbated by rising sea levels and risked contaminating the island's lagoon and the surrounding ocean.
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In this case, the pyrite's sulfur and iron isotopes contained the signature of oxygen in the shallows of the ancient oceans, despite the fact that the overall atmosphere didn't have oxygen.
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Humayun says that Wang and his team haven't disproven anything just yet But Humayun, who has specialized in potassium isotopes, says that Wang and his team haven't disproven anything just yet.
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Cesium-28500, one of the isotopes that Japan's 6900 Fukushima accident released into the environment, contaminated hundreds of square miles with long-lived radioactivity and forced over 2628,28503 people to relocate.
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Matthew Bunn, a specialist in nuclear security at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, said another worry was the byproducts of the isotopes made at Mol, such as Cesium-137.
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According to the official account, the elite scientists were killed during tests on a liquid propulsion system involving isotopes, but other information seems to deepen the mystery rather than solve it.
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Radioactive isotopes are used in dozens of applications, from cancer treatment to pipeline-welding inspections, and thousands of packages with small amounts of radioactive material are shipped across Europe every year.
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A planet's interior heat—some left over from its formation, the rest the product of the decay of radioactive isotopes—helps determine its geological activity, for example by causing volcanoes to form.
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New technology for spotting trace elements and isotopes, as well as ultraviolet and multispectral photography, could also unlock the mysterious stone's secrets, Eric Doehne, a Los Angeles art conservator, told National Geographic.
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By measuring rare isotopes collected in rocks exposed by the glacier's retreat, the researchers concluded that this geologic relic has only vanished once or twice, tops, over the past 2.5 million years.
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But in the meantime, the research that was done for the nuclear physics community and also for medical isotopes and for treating people with cancer took cyclotrons in a whole different direction.
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After being analyzed at Dlugokencky's lab, those air samples are sent over to the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder, where their carbon isotopes are measured.
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Twenty-first-century minor league team names include the Tri-City Dust Devils, the Albuquerque Isotopes, the Vermont Lake Monsters, the Richmond Flying Squirrels, the Akron RubberDucks and the Hartford Yard Goats.
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Although no one would describe " Isotopes: A Very Short Introduction " as pleasure reading, it's a profound relief, these days, to press our collective feverish forehead against the cold steel of actual information.
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However, Brown also says there could be some hidden costs — the berries end up in the hands of European customers who often do not know they are ingesting foods containing radioactive isotopes.
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A cloud of inert radioactive gases formed as a result of a decay of the isotopes and caused the brief spike in radiation in Severodvinsk, the weather agency said in a statement.
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Basically, the U.K wants to stop being a member of the Euratom, despite warnings by radiologists that the supply of radioactive isotopes used in health treatments could be compromised as a result.
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By studying isotopes in the teeth and bones, experts have discovered that the victims were born in different places across Mesoamerica, but had often spent significant time in Tenochtitlan before their violent deaths.
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Several hundred feet down, in two cavernous halls, neat rows of centrifuges spin uranium gas to produce fissile isotopes, which could be used for nuclear energy—or, if concentrated enough, a nuclear bomb.
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The researchers believe that the reason for the amount of Oxygen-18 they found in the Panorama samples is because there wasn't any soil, or landmasses comprised of it, to absorb the isotopes.
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But based on statements by Iranian lawmakers, European officials expect Iran to announce that it is producing fuel at 20 percent enrichment, to supply a small reactor that produces medical isotopes in Tehran.
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These isotopes can be used to work out where the nitrates came from, said Nick Hawco, a chemical oceanographer at the University of Southern California and the other lead author of the study.
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TEPCO has managed to remove most of the radioactive isotopes from the wastewater using an "advanced filtration process," reports the BBC, but it doesn't have the technology to remove the hydrogen isotope tritium.
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Colorado Tony Wolters (concussion) completed a three-game rehab assignment with Triple-A Albuquerque and is expected to be reinstated Tuesday, with fellow C Dustin Garneau to be optioned to the Isotopes. 3.
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Centrifuges allow scientists to separate the two uranium isotopes because the heavier isotope—uranium-238—is pushed to the outside of the rapidly spinning machine while the uranium-235 clusters in the middle.
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"Stable isotopes told us that Thylacoleo ate prey that resides in forests," DeSantis explained to Gizmodo, while a 3D dental analysis of wear-and-tear on this creature's teeth pointed to the same conclusion.
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What is known, however, is that every day, as much as much as 150 tons of groundwater percolates into the reactors through cracks in their foundations, becoming contaminated with radioactive isotopes in the process.
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Armed with this information, Dr Wei and his colleagues looked at the ratio of uranium isotopes in their rock samples and found two moments when 238U levels plunged with respect to those of 235U.
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The scientist leading the project, Ken Buesseler, met members of the Safecast team in 2250 shortly after he published a study on radioactive isotopes in the fish and waters off the coast of Fukushima.
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Outside Euratom, not only would nuclear power stations be unable to import plutonium, but imports of radioactive isotopes that are vital for cancer treatment and are not made in Britain might have to cease.
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Comparing the different isotopes (same element, different amount of neutrons in its nucleus) of sulfur and iron revealed evidence of oxygen in these "near-shore shallow-marine" environments, despite an overall oxygen-less atmosphere.
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CNNC said the technology uses 30 percent to 40 percent of the isotopes in natural uranium, compared with just 0.7 percent in conventional models, and reactors could run for decades without requiring additional fuel.
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It says special nuclear material is only mildly radioactive, but includes fissile isotopes — uranium-233, uranium-235, and plutonium-239 — that, in concentrated form, could be used as the primary ingredients of nuclear explosives.
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Belgium has both low-enriched uranium, which fuels its two power plants, and highly enriched uranium, which is used in its research reactor primarily to make medical isotopes, plus the byproducts of that process.
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Wines made around major nuclear events, including American and Soviet nuclear tests during the Cold War and the Chernobyl accident, should show higher levels of radioactive isotopes, called cesium-137, according to the researchers.
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High levels of carbon and nitrogen isotopes were found in the bone collagen of the dogs, turkeys and one of the wild cats, suggesting they ate mostly maize, and were therefore fed by humans.
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"Uranium enrichment and the production of stable isotopes cannot be carried out in the same room," TVEL said in a statement, adding that it was "technologically impossible" to implement the project at this time.
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