Sentences with phrase «radioactive isotopes such»
The gamma rays would produce airborne radioactive isotopes such as carbon - 14 and beryllium - 10, which would fall to the ground.
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The colors represent the relative amounts of short - lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron - 60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.
As Formaggio explains it, when a radioactive atom such as tritium decays, it turns into an isotope of helium and, in the process, also releases an electron and a neutrino.
The fact that atoms could be trapped in a sealed cell also meant rare species of atoms, such as radioactive isotopes, could be optically manipulated.
Scientists agree that tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, is key to obtaining a precise measurement: As a gas, tritium decays at such a rate that scientists can relatively easily observe its electron byproducts.
The ratio of certain radioactive isotopes produced within such a reactor depends on alpha, and so looking at the fission products left behind in the ground at Oklo provides a way to work out the value of the constant at the time of their formation.
Caption: The colors represent the relative amounts of short - lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron - 60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.
According to the Marine Technology Society, brown seaweeds, such as kelp, contain fucoidan and algin, which have been shown to remove lead, mercury, cadmium, barium, tin and other heavy metals from tissues.20 Seaweeds also help remove radioactive isotopes from the body.
The fission process creates radioactive isotopes of lighter elements such as cesium - 137 and strontium - 90.
Shale has a radioactive signature — from uranium isotopes such as radium - 226 and radium - 228 — that geologists and drillers often measure to chart the vast underground formations.