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calcium-45

noun

Definitions

  1. A radioactive isotope of calcium, 4520Ca, with 20 protons and 25 neutrons, and a…

    A radioactive isotope of calcium, 4520Ca, with 20 protons and 25 neutrons, and a half-life of 162.6 days; it is used as a tracer in studying calcium metabolism. As it decays it undergoes nuclear transmutation via electron emission, also called negative beta decay (β⁻-decay), into scandium.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for calcium-45. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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