• There are three known stable isotopes of oxygen (8O): 16 O , 17 O , and 18 O . Radioactive isotopes ranging from 11 O to 28 O have also been characterized...
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    Oxygen isotope ratio cycles are cyclical variations in the ratio of the abundance of oxygen with an atomic mass of 18 to the abundance of oxygen with an...
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  • decay to isotopes of oxygen. The shortest-lived known isotope is nitrogen-10, with a half-life of 143(36) yoctoseconds, though the half-life of nitrogen-9...
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  • Oxygen-18 (18 O, Ω) is a natural, stable isotope of oxygen and one of the environmental isotopes. 18 O is an important precursor for the production of...
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  • Oxygen-16 (symbol: 16O or 16 8O ) is a nuclide. It is a stable isotope of oxygen, with 8 neutrons and 8 protons in its nucleus, and when not ionized, 8...
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    or Great Oxygenation Event, also called the Oxygen Catastrophe, Oxygen Revolution, Oxygen Crisis or Oxygen Holocaust, was a time interval during the Earth's...
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  • Oxygen-17 (17O) is a low-abundance, natural, stable isotope of oxygen (0.0373% in seawater; approximately twice as abundant as deuterium). As the only...
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  • Δ18O (category Isotopes of oxygen)
    measure of the deviation in ratio of stable isotopes oxygen-18 (18O) and oxygen-16 (16O). It is commonly used as a measure of the temperature of precipitation...
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    spectrometry, which separates the different isotopes of an element on the basis of their mass-to-charge ratio. Isotopic oxygen is incorporated into the body primarily...
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    most common decay mode of the isotopes lighter than 16O is β+ decay to yield nitrogen, and the most common mode for the isotopes heavier than 18O is beta...
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    react with certain stable isotopes of carbon. The selective enrichment of one stable isotope over another creates distinct isotopic fractionations that can...
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  • Doubly labeled water (category Isotopes)
    which both the hydrogen and the oxygen have been partly or completely replaced (i.e. labeled) with an uncommon isotope of these elements for tracing purposes...
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    replacement with heavy isotopes can be accomplished with other non-radioactive heavy isotopes (such as carbon-13, nitrogen-15, and oxygen-18), but this cannot...
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    inaccurate beyond around 50,000 years ago. Marine isotope stages (MIS) derived from Oxygen isotopes are often used for giving approximate dates. Pleistocene...
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    Global meteoric water line (category Isotopes of oxygen)
    oxygen and hydrogen isotopes between evaporation from ocean seawater and condensation from vapor. As oxygen isotopes (18, 16O) and hydrogen isotopes (2...
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  • Dalton (unit) (category Units of chemical measurement)
    the AMU as ⁠1/16⁠ of the average mass of an oxygen atom as found in nature; that is, the average of the masses of the known isotopes, weighted by their...
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    is the kinetic isotope effect: due to their larger masses, heavier isotopes tend to react somewhat more slowly than lighter isotopes of the same element...
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    Harold Urey (category Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society)
    William Giauque and Herrick L. Johnston discovered the stable isotopes of oxygen. Isotopes were not well understood at the time; James Chadwick would not...
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    stable isotopes usually refers to isotopes of the same element. The relative abundance of such stable isotopes can be measured experimentally (isotope analysis)...
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  • Clumped isotopes are heavy isotopes that are bonded to other heavy isotopes. The relative abundance of clumped isotopes (and multiply-substituted isotopologues)...
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    Marine isotope stages (MIS), marine oxygen-isotope stages, or oxygen isotope stages (OIS), are alternating warm and cool periods in the Earth's paleoclimate...
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    Neon (10Ne) possesses three stable isotopes: 20 Ne , 21 Ne , and 22 Ne . In addition, 17 radioactive isotopes have been discovered, ranging from 15 Ne...
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  • Dark oxygen production (DOP) refers to the generation of molecular oxygen (O2) through processes that do not involve light-dependent oxygenic photosynthesis...
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    stability towards radioactive decay. Oxygen has three stable isotopes, and 14 unstable ones. Sulfur has four stable isotopes, 20 radioactive ones, and one isomer...
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  • A table or chart of nuclides is a two-dimensional graph of isotopes of the elements, in which one axis represents the number of neutrons (symbol N) and...
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  • Toshiko Mayeda (category American people of Japanese descent)
    spectrometry to measure oxygen isotopes in the shells of marine molluscs which gave information on the prehistoric temperatures of ocean waters and hence...
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  • An isotopic signature (also isotopic fingerprint) is a ratio of non-radiogenic 'stable isotopes', stable radiogenic isotopes, or unstable radioactive...
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  • Isotope geochemistry is an aspect of geology based upon the study of natural variations in the relative abundances of isotopes of various elements. Variations...
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  • spectrometry) Isotopic labeling Isotopes of hydrogen Isotopes of carbon; δ13C Isotopes of oxygen; δ18O Isotopes of nitrogen; δ15N Isotopes of sulfur; δ34S...
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    carbon (and not oxygen) isotopes. It is important to notice that the method based on carbon stable isotopes is not simply an adaptation of the classic 14C...
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