Isotopes

Resources

• General
  • ABCs of Nuclear Science, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
  • Stable Isotopes in Forensics. Tim De Chant. NOVA. PBS (2104).
  • Table of the Nuclides
    • Brookhaven National Laboratory
    • International Atomic Energy Agency
    • Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute ☜ My personal favorite
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
• heavy hydrogen
  • Astrophysicists announce surprising discovery of extremely rare molecule in interstellar space (triply deuterated ammonia), Tom Phillips, Caltech Press Release, 29 May 2002.
  • Why is heavy water poisonous? Philip Carlson, PhysLink.com
• isotopic ratios
  • Paleoclimate Reconstruction. James S. Aber. Emporia State University.
  • Center for Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry. University of California, Berkeley.
  • Stable Isotopes in Precipitation. Dansgaard, W. Tellus. 16 (1964): 436–468.
  • Stable Isotopes in Plant Ecology. Todd Dawson, et al. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. Vol. 33: (November 2002): 507–559.
  • Metabolic fractionation of ¹³C and ¹²C in plants. Park, R. and S. Epstein. Plant Physiology. Vol. 36 No. 2 (March 1961): 133–138.
  • The thermodynamic properties of isotopic substances. Urey, H.C. Journal of the Chemical Society. (1947): 562–581.
• magic numbers
  • Evidence for a new nuclear "magic number" from the level structure of ⁵⁴Ca. D. Steppenbeck, et al. Nature. Vol. 502 (10 October 2013) 207–210.
  • On Closed Shells in Nuclei. Maria Goeppert Mayer. Physical Review. Vol. 74 No. 3 (August 1948): 235–239.
  • On Closed Shells in Nuclei. II. Maria Goeppert Mayer. Physical Review. Vol. 75 No. 12 (June 1949): 1969–1970. ☜ Most cited of the original papers in this subject
  • On the "Magic Numbers" in Nuclear Structure. Otto Haxel, J. Hans D. Jensen, Hans E. Suess. Physical Review. Vol. 75 No. 11 (June 1949): 1766–1766.