isotopically
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a word derived from
isotope.
isotopenounany of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elements, in addition to over 800 radioactive isotopes, and every element has known isotopic forms. Isotopes of a single element possess almost identical properties.
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These facilities can provide various highly enriched isotope precursors to grow different isotopically pure 2D materials.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024
As a result rainwater is isotopically lighter than seawater, which itself has lighter oxygen than unadulterated rocks from Earth’s mantle.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
"So uranium from outside the solar system would have been totally different isotopically than ours."
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2023
Or deliberate neutrino emissions, gravitational waves, engineered molecular vibrational emissions, and isotopically encoded messages.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2020
These have been isotopically dated at 4.28 Ga, although the reliability of that date has been questioned.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015