Quotes About Isotope

Their marriage decayed with the exponential determinism of a radioactive isotope and still he sought her out, and accepted her conditions.

When the moon was first visited in 1969, the astronauts brought back a treasure trove of unique minerals. Contained within specimens was an isotope called Helium-3, which turns out to be the perfect fuel for fusion reactors.

Tired of burning fossil fuel and polluting the planet? The moon is covered with helium 3, an isotope from the sun that is the perfect fuel for clean fusion reactors.

They discussed the long, thorough theoretical paper by Niels Bohr and John Wheeler, "The mechanism of nuclear fission," that had been published in the September Physical Review and especially its conclusion, which Bohr and Wheeler had elaborated from Bohr's Sunday-morning graph work, that U235 was probably the isotope of uranium responsible for slow-neutron fission.1205

complete with carbon-14 signatures

Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

half of its carbon 14 content decays into nitrogen 14 every 5,700 years, until

During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.