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radionuclide generators: As well as
being extracted from
nuclear waste,
radioisotopes can be
produced deliberately with
nuclear reactors,
exploiting the high...
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radiological accident. Safe use of RTGs
requires containment of the
radioisotopes long
after the
productive life of the unit. The
expense of RTGs tends...
- A
trace radioisotope is a
radioisotope that
occurs naturally in
trace amounts (i.e.
extremely small).
Generally speaking,
trace radioisotopes have half-lives...
- Some must be
manufactured in
particle accelerators. Some
synthetic radioisotopes are
extracted from
spent nuclear reactor fuel rods,
which contain various...
- An
atomic battery,
nuclear battery,
radioisotope battery or
radioisotope generator uses
energy from the
decay of a
radioactive isotope to
generate electricity...
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simpler and
often have no
moving parts. Alternatively,
radioisotopes may be used in a
radioisotope electric rocket, in
which energy from
nuclear decay is...
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Radiometric dating,
radioactive dating or
radioisotope dating is a
technique which is used to date
materials such as
rocks or carbon, in
which trace radioactive...
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trace ocean composition and
temperature which seafood is from.
Thirteen radioisotopes have been characterized; the most
stable are 15 O with half-life 122...
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fludeoxyglucose in
which fluorine-18 is
incorporated into deoxyglucose. Some
radioisotopes (for
example gallium-67, gallium-68, and radioiodine) are used directly...
- contexts,
experiments that use
radioisotope tracers are
sometimes called radioisotope feeding experiments.
Radioisotopes of hydrogen, carbon, phosphorus...
