atoms with the same atomic number but with different mass numbers due to a differing numbers of neutrons. used for medication.
The isotopes are not manufactured for specific uses, they occur in nature naturally.
Unstable isotopes are radioactive isotopes, can disintegrate and emit radiations.
1. Sodium has 20 isotopes and 2 isomers. 2. Only the isotope 23Na is stable. 3. The stable isotope 23Na and the radioactive isotopes 22Na and 24Na (these isotopes exist in traces) are natural isotopes.
Uranium has 3 natural isotopes and 26 artificial isotopes and isomers..
radio-isotopes
"Daughter isotopes" are called the decay products of an radioactive isotope.
Isotopes have the same number of protons but different number of neutrons. Carbon has several isotopes: carbon-12, carbon-13, carbon-14, etc. They all have 6 protons but their mass and physical properties change due to the number of neutron.
The daughter isotope is the result of the radioactive disintegration of the parent isotope. For example radium is a product of the uranium disintegration.The two isotopes have different chemical (different atomic numbers, etc.), physical and nuclear properties.
Hydrogen has 1 unstable isotope, and 2 stable isotopes.
Isotopes are used.
Isotopes are identified by their mass numbers.
Isotopes are different kinds of the same element.