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TOI | Table Of Isotopes | |
INIS | International Isotopes | |
ICON | Isotopes of Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen | |
RIL | Radiogenic Isotopes Laboratory | |
FRIB | Facility for Rare Isotopes Beams | |
TRIGA | Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics | |
CNIP | Canadian Network for Isotopes in Precipitation | |
TORI | Table Of Radioactive Isotopes | |
OSI | Ordinary Stuffed Isotopes | |
MNIP | Manitoba Network for Isotopes in Precipitation | |
MTFI | Metric Tons of Fissile Isotopes | |
AWRI | Astrophysics With Radioactive Isotopes | |
GNIP | Global Networks of Isotopes in Precipitation | |
TRIGA | Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics | |
SILEX | Separation of Isotopes by Laser Excitation | |
GNIP | Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation |
What does isotopes mean?
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- Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides, as technical term) of the same element. They have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei) and position in the periodic table (and hence belong to the same chemical element), but differ in nucleon numbers (mass numbers) due to different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei. While all isotopes of a given element have almost the same chemical properties, they have different atomic masses and physical properties.The term isotope is formed from the Greek roots isos (ἴσος "equal") and topos (τόπος "place"), meaning "the same place"; thus, the meaning behind the name is that different isotopes of a single element occupy the same position on the periodic table. It was coined by Scottish doctor and writer Margaret Todd in 1913 in a suggestion to the British chemist Frederick Soddy.The number of protons within the atom's nucleus is called its atomic number and is equal to the number of electrons in the neutral (non-ionized) atom. Each atomic number identifies a specific element, but not the isotope; an atom of a given element may have a wide range in its number of neutrons. The number of nucleons (both protons and neutrons) in the nucleus is the atom's mass number, and each isotope of a given element has a different mass number. For example, carbon-12, carbon-13, and carbon-14 are three isotopes of the element carbon with mass numbers 12, 13, and 14, respectively. The atomic number of carbon is 6, which means that every carbon atom has 6 protons so that the neutron numbers of these isotopes are 6, 7, and 8 respectively.
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