Sentence examples for isotope from inspiring English sources

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

So the next experiment involved ciliates that had been "labelled" with a radioactive isotope of sulphur.

The neutrons are generated by bombarding a heavy form of hydrogen, called tritium, with a lighter isotope of the gas, called deuterium.

At its factory near Chester, tubes filled with uranium gas spin, forcing heavy particles to separate from the lighter U235 isotope needed to sustain a nuclear reaction.

They have found that the proportion of ¹²C a light isotope of carbon that is more easily incorporated by living organisms into organic matter than its heavy cousin, ¹³C increased on at least three occasions during the Ediacaran period.

When the commonest isotope of iron (56Fe) absorbs a neutron, the result is not radioactive.

In 2006 Dr Jenkins noticed that the decay rate of the radioactive isotope manganese-54 dipped 39 hours before a solar flare came crashing into Earth's protective magnetic field.

As-yet-unpublished data for manganese-54 suggest that isotope follows a similar pattern.

When a hurricane forms, it tends, initially, to rain water molecules containing the heavier isotope.

If a biological-looking isotope ratio turns up in Martian rocks, that would be teasing evidence of life.The two American landers will also be looking for life, of course.

Deuterium (along with an even heavier hydrogen isotope called tritium, which is made by bombarding either deuterium or lithium with neutrons) is injected into the doughnut, heated to the point at which its electrons break free and it forms a plasma, and squeezed by magnetic fields.In this section Next ITERation?