Search results for "Cobalt-60 (isotope)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • paints, and varnishes. Its radioactive isotope cobalt-60 is used for radiotherapy ... and Glenn Seaborg discovered the radioisotope cobalt-60. ...
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  • 144Nd and 150Nd. The most abundant stable isotope is 142Nd, with a natural ... for neodymium isotopes. The neodymium isotope composition of volcanic ...
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  • amounts in uranium ores. Its most stable isotope, Ra-226, has a half-life ... decay of uranium or thorium. The common isotope is Ra-226, a product of ...
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  • The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, 152Sm, is electron capture, and the primary mode after is beta minus decay. The ...
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  • Naturally occurring rhodium is composed of only one isotope, 103Rh, which is stable. In addition, many radioactive isotopes, ranging in mass ...
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  • the activity of one gram of pure radium, isotope Ra-226. At present, it is ... because the half-life of the longest lived isotope in the series is short compared ...
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  • Category:Public number=74 | symbol=W | name=tungsten | left=tantalum | right=rhenium | above=Mo | below=Sg | color1=#ffc0c0 | color2=black ...
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  • urea (carbon 14-radioactive, or carbon 13-stable isotope) is used in the Urea breath test, which helps detect the presence of certain bacteria (Helicobacter ...
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  • produced has largely supplanted the older use of Cobalt-60 therapy as a treatment tool. === Tandem electrostatic accelerators === In a tandem ...
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  • Naturally occurring niobium is composed of one stable isotope: Nb-93. The most stable radioisotopes are Nb-92, with a half-life of 34.7 million ...
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  • americium for use in smoke detectors, and cobalt-60, molybdenum-99 and others ... and can be transmuted to a radioactive isotope more readily than lead. ...
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  • Category:Public number=30 | symbol=Zn | name=zinc | left=copper | right=gallium | above=- | below=Cd | color1= | color2=black transition metals ...
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  • with extremely short half-lives. Only one isotope, 75As, is stable. Arsenic has been proposed as a "salting" material for nuclear weapons—that ...
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