Researchers have discovered eight new rare isotopes of the elements phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, scandium and, most importantly, calcium. These are the heaviest isotopes of ...

If the isotope of a molecule remains the same, it meets the first requirement to identify the source of a molecule or contaminant in the environment. If the isotope of a molecule were to change in any ...

There is no good theory to predict the maximum number of neutrons, so it is up to experimentalists to determine the limits. Such a limit is known as the dripline because a plot of proton number ...

Currently, there are 118 known elements on the periodic table, from hydrogen all the way to oganesson, which was officially named in 2016. It’s pretty hefty, with at least 294 subatomic ...

Journal of Environmental Management (2023). [3] Tracing phosphorus sources in the river-lake system using the oxygen isotope of phosphate. The Science of The Total Environment (2024).

Scientists have measured the half-lives of five never-before-seen isotopes in a first demonstration of a research facility that will help probe the nuclear structures of elements (Phys. Rev. Lett ...

A new study has measured how long it takes for several kinds of exotic nuclei to decay. The paper marks the first experimental result from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. It is just a small ...

The nuclear chart showing the 250 or so stable isotopes in pink, the around 3,000 known rare isotopes in green and the approximately 4,000 predicted isotopes in grey.

Phosphorus in the environment is present in two forms—organic and inorganic. Scientists measure isotopes of inorganic phosphate oxygens, but there was no such method to measure isotopes of organic ...

The calcium nuclei undergo fragmentation to create smaller nuclei, which were studied by the team. This was done using BigRIPS, which sorts nuclei according to their mass and charge. Before the study ...