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- noun physics The only
stable isotope of phosphorus, 3115P, having fifteenprotons and sixteenneutrons
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Once these exceptionally pure crystals were created, they then had to be doped with phosphorus-31 in specific areas of the crystal and to just the right amount - an undertaking that Ager compared to adding one extra person to Earth's population at one particular address.
Scientific Blogging 2008
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To conduct their experiments, they have been working with individual spins of electrons of phosphorus-31 atoms contained in a very expensive, exceptionally pure and isotopically controlled silicon-28 crystal, Lyon said.
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