Physics A-Level
Choice of suitable isotope
What Choice of suitable isotope means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Choice of suitable isotope
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A source such as protactinium-234 is used because it has a conveniently short half-life.
Topics that use Choice of suitable isotope
- Radioactivity (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Absorber
- Alpha decay
- Beta-minus decay
- Beta-plus decay
- Carbon-14 and half-life
- Corrected count rate
- Decay constant
- Experimental measurement of half-life
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