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- noun physics The major
stable isotope of oxygen, 168O, having eightprotons and eightneutrons ; it amounts to over 99% of theelement innature
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It is indeed still more remarkable that all the masses so far measured of the recently enumerated elements and several others, and also the masses of their isotopes, can be expressed by means of whole numbers in relation to oxygen-16.
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The atomic weight of hydrogen has thus been found to be noticeably heavier than the unity which holds good with regard to the other elements in relation to oxygen-16.
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By this means there is attained what is known as a mass spectrogram, that is to say a series of lines in which each line corresponds to a certain atomic weight, and where the numerical value of each atomic weight can be read off from the distance of the line from the line or lines which are produced by any fundamental substance that is chosen as a standard - usually carbon-12 or oxygen-16.
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Other studies used the ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 δ 18O in the shells, so Mg/Ca provides a parallel measure.
Ars Technica Kyle Niemeyer 2011
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Using an instrument called a mass spectrometer think of it as an atomic weighing machine, they studied the relative abundance in the meteorite's silicate minerals of three isotopes of oxygen - oxygen-16, oxygen-17 and oxygen-18.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Because oxygen-16 is lighter than another isotope - oxygen-18 - it is more readily released with water vapour.
Analysis 2010
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Because oxygen-16 is lighter than another isotope - oxygen-18 - it is more readily released with water vapour.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
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Poulsen said that the confusion results when ratios of oxygen's two main isotopes, oxygen-18 and oxygen-16, are used to estimate past elevation.
Analysis 2010
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Because oxygen-16 is lighter than another isotope - oxygen-18 - it is more readily released with water vapour.
Analysis 2010
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Because oxygen-16 is lighter than another isotope - oxygen-18 - it is more readily released with water vapour.
Analysis 2010
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