Sentences with phrase «nuclear isomer»

The resulting nuclear isomer, Th - 229m, possesses the lowest excitation state in any known atomic nucleus.

Researchers led by Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich physicists Peter Thirolf, Lars von der Wense and Benedict Seiferle have now experimentally identified a long - sought excitation state, a nuclear isomer in an isotope of the element thorium (Th), which could enhance this level of accuracy by a factor of about ten.

Not exact matches

Water molecules can exist as one of two isomers, depending on how the spins of their two hydrogen atoms are orientated: ortho, where the nuclear spins are parallel to one another, and para, where the spins are antiparallel.

Shaw and Dr. Molly O'Hagan conducted experiments using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to examine the three isomers.