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7b.
The production of
radioisotopes
- artificial sources
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To meet the industrial and medical
demand for Radioisotopes (as described earlier) many are made by allowing
stable isotopes to be hit by neutrons in a small research scale nuclear reactor.
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Note again, the
balancing of nuclear equations e.g.
to make carbon-13, used as a chemical tracer carbon in studying the mechanisms
or organic chemistry reactions
to make sodium-24, which can be used in tracer studies of animal blood
circulation
to make cobalt-60, used as the gamma source for cancer radiotherapy.
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