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10:28 Feb 23, 2018 |
Swedish to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Christopher Schröder United Kingdom | ||||||
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4 +1 | radionuclide, nuclide |
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4 | parent |
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3 | The element |
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The element Explanation: May suit the context. |
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parent Explanation: Radium 226 is the parent istope and decays into radon 222 which is the daughter isotope -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2018-02-23 11:29:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- *parent isotope |
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radionuclide, nuclide Explanation: You could use either of these. It is an isotope, but nuclide is more appropriate. The use of "led" does not refer to a full chain, but rather to one link or step of a chain, namely the chain of radioactive decay starting with uranium-238 and ending at lead-206. For this reason, I would not use "parent" - even though radium-226 is indeed the parent nuclide of radon-222, it is also the decay product (or daughter product) of thorium-230. Element is to vague. And by the way, this is physics rather than chemistry. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 timmar (2018-02-23 13:25:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclide-basics-radium https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230654/ |
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