Organic phosphorus compounds are much more complex, making them difficult to identify and track in the environment. Scientists often use an element’s isotopes as means to track its presence in the ...

Organic phosphorus compounds are much more complex, making them difficult to identify and track in the environment. Scientists often use an element's isotopes as a means to track its presence in ...

But when a phosphorus-containing compound finds itself in a biological environment, such as a cell, enzymes easily mediate breakage of that bond, and the oxygen isotopes in the phosphate exchange ...

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 ...

Most of the isotopes have been used as “tracers.” Radioactive phosphorus, for instance, has exactly the same chemical properties as ordinary phosphorus. So it can be made into phosphorus ...

CARBON-12 AND -14. Oxygen-16 and -18. Phosphorus-31 and -32. Add one or two neutrons to an element, and it creates another isotope. But what about adding 14 or more neutrons to a light atom?

The collision caused the beam to break into several exotic isotopes of lighter elements, including five never before measured—phosphorus-45, silicon-42, aluminum-40, aluminum-41, and magnesium ...

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 oxygen isotope composition of phosphate (δ 18 O p) offers a powerful tracer for elucidating the complex pathways of phosphorus cycling in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. By analysing ...

that are formed when phosphorus-30 captures a proton. Conveniently, these resonances are the same as those formed when the rare isotope chlorine-31 undergoes beta decay to sulphur-31. The team studied ...

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