However, about 1 % of the carbon in the Earth’s biosphere has 6 protons and 7 neutrons (13C) forming the heavy stable isotope of this important element. Stable isotopes do not decay into other ...

"super-heavy" hydrogen, serves as the fuel for nuclear fusion, a sustainable energy source of the future. One of the unsolved problems in hydrogen research is how to provide these isotopes in a ...

Water enriched in these heavy isotopes is critical for a range of specific applications in medicine and nuclear science, yet the process of concentrating the heavy water component remains ...

MESSRS. R. P. BELL and J. H. Wolfenden 1 have recently given their experience in concentrating the hydrogen isotope, namely, that nickel, platinum and copper are about equally efficient as ...

For this purpose, they must be separated using highly sophisticated techniques, such as mass spectrometry. While deuterium H-2, an isotope twice as heavy as hydrogen, is predominantly used in ...

“Each one of those processes can end up changing the ratio of the heavy to the light isotope. So each one of those will have a unique sort of fingerprint for that one, but the overall signature of ...

In heavy water, each hydrogen atom is indeed heavier, with a neutron as well as a proton in its nucleus. This isotope of hydrogen is called deuterium, and heavy water's more scientific name is ...

Graphene can simplify production of heavy water and help clean nuclear waste by filtering different isotopes of hydrogen, University of Manchester research indicates. Writing in Science, a team led by ...