Isotopes are used in many areas of science and technology, including medicine, archaeology, and nuclear physics. They are central to our understanding of the Earth's past and current processes. Here, Rob Ellam explains the importance and applications of stable and radioactive isotopes.
Isotopes are used in many areas of science and technology, including medicine, archaeology, and nuclear physics. They are central to our understanding of the Earth's past and current processes. Here, Rob Ellam explains the importance and applications of stable and radioactive isotopes.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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