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Definition: Radioisotope |
RadioisotopeNoun1. A radioactive isotope of an element; produced either naturally or artificially. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Chemistry | Radioactive isotope of a specified element. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | An unstable isotope of an element that decays or disintegrates spontaneously, emitting radiation. Approximately 5,000 natural and artificial radioisotopes have been identified. (references) |
Health | An unstable element that releases radiation as it breaks down. Radioisotopes can be used in imaging tests or as a treatment for cancer. (references) |
| An unstable or radioactive isotope (form) of an element that can change into another element by giving off radiation. (references) | |
Mining | A. An unstable isotope of an element that decays or disintegrates spontaneously, emitting radiation b. Radioisotope is loosely used as a syn. for radionuclide.See also:radium; radon. Syn:unstable isotope. (references) |
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Crosswords: Radioisotope |
| English words defined with "radioisotope": carbon dating, carbon-14 dating ♦ radiocarbon dating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "radioisotope": Bone seeker ♦ Diagnostic Techniques, Radioisotope, DNA Probes ♦ Erythrocyte Volume ♦ ibritumomab tiuxetan, IDEC-Y2B8 monoclonal antibody ♦ nuclide ♦ Oligonucleotide Probes ♦ Radiation source, Radioisotope Renography, radioisotope sail, radioisotope scanning, Radioisotope Teletherapy, RADIOISOTOPE-PRODUCTION OPERATOR, Radionuclide, Radionuclide Angiography, RADIOPHARMACIST, RNA Probes, RTG ♦ specific power ♦ Whole-body exposure. (references) |
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Health | After eating, you will lie under a machine that detects the radioisotope and shows an image of the food in the stomach and how quickly it leaves the stomach. (references) | |
Regional differences in radioisotope concentration and in the rates at which the radioisotopes disappear are measures of unequal blood flow due to coronary artery narrowing, or due to failure of uptake in scarred heart muscle. (references) | ||
If looking at the liver is necessary to check for signs of disease, the doctor might order a computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan, ultrasound, or a scan of the liver using a radioisotope (a harmless radioactive substance that highlights the liver). (references) | ||
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| "Radioisotope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Radioisotope" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "radioisotope": Radioisotope Dilution Technique ♦ Radioisotope Renography ♦ radioisotope sail ♦ radioisotope scanning ♦ Radioisotope Teletherapy. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
radioisotope | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "radioisotope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | radioisotop (radioactive isotope), radioaktivt isotop (radioactive isotope). (various references) | |
Dutch | radio-isotoop (radioactive isotope). (various references) | |
Farsi | ایزوتوپ پرتوافشان , ایزوتوپ , رادیواکتیو (Radioactive). (various references) | |
Finnish | radioisotooppi (radioactive isotope), radioaktiivinen isotooppi (radioactive isotope). (various references) | |
French | radio-isotope (radioactive isotope), isotope radioactif (radioactive isotope). (various references) | |
German | Radioisotop (radioactive isotope). (various references) | |
Greek | ραδιοϊσότοπο (radioactive isotope). (various references) | |
Hungarian | radioaktív izotóp. (various references) | |
Italian | radioisotopo (radioactive isotope). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ラジウ 療法 (final effort before the end, last, last lap, last spurt, lathe, radiator, radical, radicalist, radio, radio car, Radio City, radio compass, radio control, radio controlled models, radiocarbon test, radio-cassette, radio-cassette player, radiometer, radiosonde, radium therapy, RAS, raster, raster file, Remote Access Server, roster, rusk), "射性同位" . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラジオアイソトープ , ほうしゃせいどういたい. (various references) | |
Korean | 방사성 동위원소. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adioisotoperay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | radioisótopo (radioactive isotope), isótopo radioactivo (radioactive isotope). (various references) | |
Russian | радиоизотоп. (various references) | |
Spanish | radioisótopo (radioactive isotope). (various references) | |
Swedish | radioisotop (radioactive isotope). (various references) | |
Ukranian | радіоактивний ізотоп. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đ"ng vị phóng xạ. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "radioisotope": radioisotopes. (additional references) | |
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"Radioisotope" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: radioisotopic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-o-o-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: podiatries. | |
-3 letters: depositor, droopiest, parotoids, topiaries, tripodies. | |
-4 letters: adopters, asteroid, diaspore, dioptase, diopters, dioptres, diorites, doorpost, doorstep, doorstop, parities, parodies, parodist, parotids, parotoid, pastored, peridots, presidia, presidio, proteids, rapidest, readopts, riposted, riptides, spirited, tiderips, topsider, torpedos, traipsed. | |
-5 letters: adipose, adopter, airiest, airpost, aridest, aspired, astride, atopies, dairies, departs, deports, deposit, despair, diapers, diapirs, diaries, diarist, diaster, diopter, dioptre, diorite, diptera, dirties, dispart, disport, disrate, disroot, ditsier, dopiest, editors, esparto, iodates, isotope, oospore, opiated, opiates, opioids, oroides, osteoid, parodoi, parodos, parotid, partied, parties, pastier, peridia, peridot, periods, petards, piaster, piastre, pirated, pirates, pitiers, podesta, podites, poorest, posited, praised, prostie, proteas, proteid, readopt, redtops, reposit, riposte, riptide, roadeos, roadies, roasted, roosted, ropiest, seaport, soapier, sootier, sopited, sortied, sparoid, spiroid, spirted, spoored, sporoid, sported, staider, steroid, stooped, stooper, storied, striped, tardies, tiderip, tidiers, tipsier, tirades, toadies, topside, toroids, torpedo, torpids, torsade, traipse, triodes, tripods, trooped. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-o-o-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: radioisotopes. | |
+4 letters: disproportionate, radioprotections. | |
+5 letters: bacteriorhodopsin, disproportionated, disproportionates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 64 69 6F 69 73 6F 74 6F 70 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.. .. --- .. ... --- - --- .--. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101111 01101001 01110011 01101111 01110100 01101111 01110000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a d i o i s o t o p e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0064 0069 006F 0069 0073 006F 0074 006F 0070 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526770758175858186818271 |
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