Sentence examples for most common radioactive from inspiring English sources

Cesium-137 is the most common radioactive form of the metal cesium.

But at the 25 sites that inspectors visited, many had quantities of cesium 137, the most common radioactive form of the element, in the same range as in a medical device that was inadvertently discarded in the Goiania region of Brazil in 1987.

Uranium and thorium are the most common radioactive elements found in granites.

Thorium and uranium are the two most common radioactive elements on earth; they have been around since the earth was formed.

Alpha decay, the release of a high-energy helium nucleus, is the most common form of radioactive decay for plutonium.

The most common forms of radioactive decay are: Alpha decay: this process is caused when the nucleus emits an alpha particle, which is a helium nucleus consisting of two protons and two neutrons.

One of the most common methods used measures the radioactive decay of uranium to lead in the mineral zircon by comparing the ratio of one to the other in the sample of zircon.

Radioactive zirconium (Zr) isotopes are produced in large quantities in nuclear fission reactors; one of the most common fragments in uranium fission is the radioactive Zr.

The most common probes, which use fluorescent markers or radioactive labels to pinpoint the virus's location in a tissue sample, sometimes have difficulty distinguishing the target HIV RNA and DNA from surrounding cellular components.

Francium has 34 known isotopes, all of which are radioactive with very short half-lives: the most common isotope, Fr-223, has the longest half-life of just 22 minutes.

The most common isotope, helium-4, is produced on Earth by alpha decay of heavier radioactive elements; the alpha particles that emerge are fully ionized helium-4 nuclei.