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chlorine-36

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  • noun physics A long-lived radioactive isotope of chlorine, 3617Cl, having seventeen protons and nineteen neutrons, and a half-life of 3x105 years; it can be used to date samples of groundwater

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  • Tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, and chlorine-36 were also both absent from the Naimona'nyi cores, she said.

    YubaNet.com 2008

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  1. chlorine-35
  2. chlorine-37

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