The study by Louie Yang (Dept. Entomology at UC - Davis) used stable
hydrogen isotope analysis to test tissue samples from 114 butterflies at 4 overwintering locations.
Not exact matches
Scientists can determine where an individual piece of meat comes from using a technique called
isotope analysis, looking at the specific fingerprints of carbon,
hydrogen, and nitrogen atoms to see where a cow lived.
Analysis of the water leaving Venus's atmosphere, however, shows that many of the
hydrogen ions are actually a stable
isotope of the element called deuterium, which consists of a proton and a neutron (rather than just a proton) in its nucleus.
In his talk, Agee presented the results of the
isotope analysis for oxygen as well as
hydrogen.
The team based its
analysis on ratios of oxygen and
hydrogen isotopes in ice cores drilled in East Antarctica.