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- noun physics The major
stable isotope of chlorine, 3517Cl, having seventeenprotons and eighteenneutrons ; it amounts to about 76% of theelement innature
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Examples
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Furthermore, lunar rocks from the surface showed depleted values of chlorine-37 relative to the lighter chlorine-35 isotope, and subsurface lunar rock samples shielded from solar winds had higher, not lower, concentrations of chlorine-37.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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If the rocks were to be affected by the solar winds, the lighter chlorine isotope, chlorine-35, would preferentially react with the protons and be carried away as hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This compound is more often made with chlorine-37 than chlorine-35.
SPACE.com 2010
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In particular, they measured the prevalence of two kinds of chlorine atoms, called isotopes - chlorine-35 and chlorine-37.
SPACE.com 2010
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They found that the ratio of chlorine-35 to chlorine-37 was very constant, and only varied by about 0.1 percent.
SPACE.com 2010
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That means that when the gas is emitted into the atmosphere, more of the former atom is lost than the latter, leaving behind cooled volcanic rocks that are enriched with chlorine-35.
SPACE.com 2010
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So if hydrogen were present, more chlorine-37 would escape the magma along with chlorine-35.
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Instead, they found a wide range in the ratios of chlorine-35 to chlorine-37.
Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews 2010
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