tracers
- plural of tracer.
Example Sentences
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Oxygen isotopes function as tracers, allowing scientists to learn about water sources, plant transpiration, and atmospheric moisture.
From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025
In February he underwent a scan that uses radioactive tracers to see if it had spread.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025
In fact, scientists have been doing studies like this since the 1960s, releasing tracers such as zinc sulfide powder or sulfur hexafluoride gas into the stratosphere to study air currents.
From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023
Geochemical tracers from the cores hint that deposits deeper in the dome were formed from carbonatites—the unusual volcanic rocks associated with the world’s best rare earth deposits.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 1, 2023
The PSFs and skip tracers all seemed to know to look for her now.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
