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Isotopes: A Very Short Introduction
Isotopes: A Very Short Introduction
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  • Explains the role of isotopes in tackling challenges such as climate change, cancer treatment, Earth's age and origin, and nuclear accidents
  • Considers the use of isotopes in archaeology for carbon dating
  • Describes the various technologies used to measure the proportions of radioactive and stable isotopes

An isotope is a variant form of a chemical element, containing a different number of neutrons in its nucleus. Most elements exist as several isotopes. Many are stable while others are radioactive, and some may only exist fleetingly before decaying into other elements.

In this Very Short Introduction, Rob Ellam explains how isotopes have proved enormously important across all the sciences and in archaeology. Radioactive isotopes may be familiar from their use in nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and in medicine, as well as in carbon dating. They have been central to establishing the age of the Earth and the origins of the solar system. Combining previous and new research, Ellam provides an overview of the nature of stable and radioactive isotopes, and considers their wide range of modern applications. 

目次: 

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

著者について: 

Rob Ellam is Professor of Geochemistry at the University of Glasgow and Director of the interdisciplinary Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was Distinguished Lecturer for the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2012-13. He has worked on isotopes across a range of fields, publishing papers on earth science, analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, and archaeology.

商品情報

ISBN : 9780198723622

著者: 
Rob Ellam
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152 ページ
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Paperback
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114 x 174 mm
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Isotopes: A Very Short Introduction

Isotopes: A Very Short Introduction

Isotopes: A Very Short Introduction