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You can use Radioactive Tracers to locate leaks in a faulty pipe system, to determine the amount of fertilizer absorption in plants, or to diagnose diseases.
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Radioactive tracers are short-lived?
rays
Scientists used radioactive decay to measure what?
amount if living organism that is expected to radioactive isotope.
What is radioactive half-life used for?
to determine how long it will take to half of nuclids to decay, having use in radioactive materials operations
Who is the founder of nuclear science?
Ernest Rutherford is the physicist who is known as the founder of or father of nuclear science. He not only developed the concept of radioactive half-life, he is noted for being the first to split the atom, and the first to discover the proton.
What is radioactive thymidine?
Thymidine is a nucleoside that consists of one thymine molecule linked to a d-doxyribose sugar molecule. Radioactive thymidine is usually used in DNA labeling.
Give two examples of how tracers are used tell why radioactive isotopes work as tracers?
Alloys
Give two examples of how tracers are used .tell why radioactive isotopes work as tracers?
Alloys
What isotopes are used as radioactive tracers?
Either beta or gamma
Do radioactive isotopes are used in medicine power plants and as tracers?
no
What are new radioactive tracers and PET scans used for?
n
What are two uses for radioactive tracers?
Uses for radioactive tracers is to look for flaws in metal objects and are also used by doctors to x-ray images to look at your bones.
How can radioactive isotopes be used as tracers?
radioactive isotopes are used to detect medical problems and to treat some diseases.
How are radioactive isotopes useful to researchers?
Radioactive isotopes are used is:- medicine, for treatment by irradiation- medicine, for diagnostic- in science/technology as tracers- as source of energy- as source of ionizing radiations- in many instruments- determination of rocks ageetc.
Are radioactive isotopes are used in medicines or power plants and tracers true of false?
true
How is a radioactive isotope helpful in medicine?
In medicine isotopes are used for treatments, diagnostics or as tracers.
Are radioactive tracers short lived?
rays
Radioactive tracers are short-lived?
rays
