Προσθήκη στα αγαπημένα
Explains the role of isotopes in tackling challenges such as climate change, cancer treatment, Earth's age and origin, and nuclear accidentsConsiders the use of isotopes in archaeology for carbon datingDescribes the various technologies used to measure the proportions of radioactive and stable isotopesPart of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over seven million copies sold worldwide
Preface: At home with the Beilbys
1: Identical outsides ... different insides
2: Measuring isotopes - radioactivity counters
3: Measuring isotopes - mass spectrometers
4: Isotopic clocks - the persistence of carbon
5: You are what you eat... plus a few per mil
6: Physics heal thyself - isotopes in medicine
7: Reconstructing the past - weathering the future
8: Scratching the surface with cosmogenic isotopes
9: Uranium, thorium, and their daughters
10: Cosmic stopped clocks
Epilogue
Further Reading
Index
Περιγραφή
Explains the role of isotopes in tackling challenges such as climate change, cancer treatment, Earth's age and origin, and nuclear accidentsConsiders the use of isotopes in archaeology for carbon datingDescribes the various technologies used to measure the proportions of radioactive and stable isotopesPart of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over seven million copies sold worldwide
