One use is isotope labeling. For example, you can synthesize a molecule with a carbon-13 at a particular location, allow it to undergo a reaction, and then see where the carbon-13 turns up in the product. This has been used (using oxygen instead of carbon) to show that the linking oxygen in an ester comes from the alcohol and not the acid, which tells us something about the mechanism of the esterification reaction.
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James Francis Duncan has written: 'Isotopes in chemistry' -- subject(s): Isotopes
In chemistry isotopes are atoms of an element with different numbers of neutrons and may having have atomic number
give five professions that uses in chemistry
You think probable to the discovery of isotopes (with Aston).
Examples: chemistry, physics, geology, biology, medicine.
isotopes is a type of i guess calorie like things you need 4 grams of IT (isotopes) every day
The basic reason that it is difficult for the chemist to distinguish between isotopes is that all the isotopes of a given element have the same chemistry. They all behave the same way chemically because the only difference between these isotopes is the number of neutrons in the nucleus of these atoms. And the number of neutrons in the nucleus doesn't really affect the chemistry of an atom of a given element.
Depending on the stability of the isotopes and what we want to use it for, I say it gives us more variety for what we want to do with it in chemistry
Some imaging uses radioactive isotopes to see various parts of the body.
J. J. Thomson discovered the electron and the isotopes.