Sentence examples for containing an isotope of from inspiring English sources

Mr Litvinenko died from radiation poisoning after, it would seem, being slipped a potion containing an isotope of polonium.

Comets that formed in colder regions have a relatively high ratio of heavy water (containing deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen) to regular water.

But the water being stored in the tanks still contains tritium, an isotope of hydrogen with two neutrons.

To make this measurement, Steeman-Nielsen added bicarbonate containing a radioactive isotope of carbon called carbon-14 to samples of sea water.

Bacteria cultured in a nutrient containing a heavy isotope of nitrogen incorporated it in their DNA.

Small molecules containing a radioactive isotope of fluorine, called 18F, allow doctors to track tumors using a scanning procedure known as positron emission tomography (PET).

For example, grasses tend to contain more of an isotope of carbon known as carbon-13 than leaves and shrubs do.

Shears also likes to mention that bananas emit antimatter, because the fruit contains a radioactive isotope of potassium.

The spectrum to be analyzed and an isotopic library containing a list of suspected isotopes is loaded.

Two different populations of cells (tumor cells and normal cells) are cultured in vitro under similar conditions except that tumor cells are grown in media containing heavy isotope of an amino acid (e.g., C labelled arginine) and the normal cell line is grown in usual media.

But rocks from two sites in Greenland, containing an unusual mix of carbon isotopes that could be evidence of biological processes, are 3.830 billion years old.