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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: radioactive tracer
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Definition: a radionuclide used to follow biological, chemical or other processes

NOTE – Since the stable nuclides and radionuclides of an element have essentially the same chemical properties, and the radioactive ones are readily detected, the movement and behaviour of the stable atoms can be traced by following the radioactive atoms.


Publication date:1983-01
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