Sentence examples for radioisotope from inspiring English sources
The word "radioisotope" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to a radioactive isotope, which is an atom with an unstable nucleus that emits radiation. An example sentence might be: "The research center was testing radioactive samples with the use of a radioisotope."
noun
A radioactive isotope of an element
For about 30 minutes every six months data stored during that period on an 8-track digital tape are transferred at a zippier 1,400bps.The Voyagers' radioisotope thermoelectric generators, ticking away with the decay of their plutonium-238 fuel, should keep the instruments and transponders going until at least 2021.
Even then, building the robot will be the most technologically daunting aspect, says Bart Hogan, Stone Aerospace's chief engineer.Using heat from a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) to warm its shell, the penetrator could melt its way through.
One of the favourites used in space missions is a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG .RTGs were developed by America in the 1950s and work by converting heat produced by the decay of a radioactive material into electricity directly.
They are used for labeling compounds so that they can be traced through various chemical, physical, and environmental processes without the problems created by radioisotope tracers.
In other words, each radioisotope has its own decay constant, abbreviated λ, which provides a measure of its intrinsic rapidity of decay.
The power range of radioisotope thermoelectric generators is generally between 10−6 and 100 watts.
South Korean lawmakers grilled government agencies about the sudden spike in the amount of xenon-133 detected from a radioisotope-monitoring station in Geojin, in northeastern South Korea.
On the other hand it is possible that water may strengthen the links between the radioisotopes and the solid matter in the sludge, making it safe to leave the jars where they are.
Recently returned from a trip to Chernobyl, he insists the fallout in Fukushima is far less severe than the Soviet Union's nuclear accident of 1986, despite having reached the same technical status (Level 7) because a majority of the radioisotopes were blown out to sea.
The results of these investigations, however, were extremely perplexing, and confusion persisted until 1939 when Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Germany, following a clue provided by Irène Joliot-Curie and Pavle Savić in France (1938), proved definitely that the so-called transuranic elements were in fact radioisotopes of barium, lanthanum, and other elements in the middle of the periodic table.
Examples of such long-lived radioisotopes include potassium-40, rubidium-87, neodymium-144, uranium-235, uranium-238, and thorium-232.
