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    Isotope analysis is the identification of isotopic signature, abundance of certain stable isotopes of chemical elements within organic and inorganic compounds...
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  • Isotope analysis has many applications in archaeology, from dating sites and artefacts, determination of past diets and migration patterns and for environmental...
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    isotopes in a given sample. This technique has two different applications in the earth and environmental sciences. The analysis of 'stable isotopes'...
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    be measured by isotope analysis, using isotope-ratio mass spectrometry or cavity ring-down spectroscopy to measure ratios of isotopes, an important tool...
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    stable isotope geochemistry. Measurement of the ratios of naturally occurring stable isotopes (isotope analysis) plays an important role in isotope geochemistry...
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    Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element. They have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei)...
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  • spectrometry against an isotopic reference material. This process is called isotope analysis. The atomic mass of different isotopes affect their chemical...
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    Position-specific isotope analysis, also called site-specific isotope analysis, is a branch of isotope analysis aimed at determining the isotopic composition...
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    preserve clumped isotopic signatures differently. Clumped isotopic analysis has certain aspects to it. These are: Clumped isotopic analysis is usually done...
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    slag is formed and removed in this process. The analysis of slag is based on its shape, texture, isotopic signature, chemical and mineralogical characteristics...
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  • Isotopic labeling (or isotopic labelling) is a technique used to track the passage of an isotope (an atom with a detectable variation in neutron count)...
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    Example: To find concentration by uv-spectrophotometer. Chemists can use isotope analysis to assist analysts with issues in anthropology, archeology, food chemistry...
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  • stress analysis and stable isotope analysis, combined with other archaeological data, seem to support this supposition. Based on stable isotope levels...
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    of trace elements, including carbon, oxygen and strontium. Stable isotope analysis of human and faunal hydroxyapatite can be used to indicate whether...
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  • Hydrogen isotope biogeochemistry is the scientific study of biological, geological, and chemical processes in the environment using the distribution and...
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    time of her death. Dental work showed fillings on 3 lower molars. Isotope analysis indicated that the girl was not from Houston, but was instead from...
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    various genetic subgroups rather than a homogenous "Celtic" population. Isotope analysis has begun to be employed to help answer the uncertainties regarding...
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    the University of Oslo in Norway, known for her work using stable isotope analysis to analyze fossil forests dating to the Eocene. She has won many awards...
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    when 90 genera of mammals weighing over 44 kg (97 lb) became extinct. Isotope analysis can be used to identify some chemical elements, allowing researchers...
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  • When analyzing the isotopes of the Aconcagua mummy, scientists concentrated specifically on carbon, nitrogen and sulfur. The analysis shows that in the...
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    around nine months or 15 months after their spring birth. Strontium isotope analysis of the animal teeth showed that some had been brought from as far afield...
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  • observationally stable isotopes: 204Pb, 206Pb, 207Pb, 208Pb. Lead-204 is entirely a primordial nuclide and is not a radiogenic nuclide. The three isotopes lead-206...
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    small percentage of 18O and an even smaller percentage of 17O. Oxygen isotope analysis considers only the ratio of 18O to 16O present in a sample. The calculated...
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    microscopy, DNA barcoding, Mitochondrial Microsatellite Analysis and some DNA and Isotope analysis can identify species and individual animals in most cases...
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  • Although there are nine known isotopes of helium (2He) (standard atomic weight: 4.002602(2)), only helium-3 (3 He ) and helium-4 (4 He ) are stable. All...
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  • Isotope hydrology is a field of geochemistry and hydrology that uses naturally occurring stable and radioactive isotopic techniques to evaluate the age...
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    evidence analysis, forensic entomologists nowadays use a variety of cutting-edge technologies, such as stable isotope analysis and DNA analysis. These methods...
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  • Isotope Isotopologue Isotopomer Isotope analysis Isotopic signature Stable Isotope Ratio Isotope geochemistry Isotope-ratio mass spectrometry Isotope...
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    Gigantopithecus is considered to have been a herbivore. Carbon-13 isotope analysis suggests consumption of C3 plants, such as fruits, leaves, and other...
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    in prey, which suggests that they were competitors. More detailed isotope analysis however, indicates that Smilodon fatalis preferred forest-dwelling...
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