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PRONUNCIATION OF RADIOACTIVE TRACER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RADIOACTIVE TRACER

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Radioactive tracer is a noun.
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WHAT DOES RADIOACTIVE TRACER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Radioactive tracer

A radioactive tracer, or radioactive label, is a chemical compound in which one or more atoms have been replaced by a radioisotope so by virtue of its radioactive decay it can be used to explore the mechanism of chemical reactions by tracing the path that the radioisotope follows from reactants to products. Radioisotopes of hydrogen, carbon, phosphorus, sulphur, and iodine have been used extensively to trace the path of biochemical reactions. A radioactive tracer can also be used to track the distribution of a substance within a natural system such as a cell or tissue. Radioactive tracers are also used to determine the location of fractures created by hydraulic fracturing in natural gas production. Radioactive tracers form the basis of a variety of imaging systems, such as, PET scans, SPECT scans and technetium scans.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RADIOACTIVE TRACER

radio window
radio-controlled
radio-opacity
radio-opaque
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radioactivation
radioactive
radioactive dating
radioactive decay
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radioactive waste
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radioautograph
radioautography
radiobiologic
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radiobiology

WORDS THAT END LIKE RADIOACTIVE TRACER

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Synonyms and antonyms of radioactive tracer in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «radioactive tracer» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RADIOACTIVE TRACER

Find out the translation of radioactive tracer to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of radioactive tracer from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «radioactive tracer» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

放射性示踪剂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trazador radiactivo
570 millions of speakers

English

radioactive tracer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रेडियोधर्मी ट्रेसर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التتبع الإشعاعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

радиоактивный изотоп
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

traçador radioactivo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তেজস্ক্রিয় tracer
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

traceur radioactif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengesan radioaktif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

radioaktiven Tracers
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

放射性トレーサー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

방사성 트레이서
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Radioaktif
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

đánh dấu phóng xạ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கதிரியக்க ட்ரேசர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

किरणोत्सर्गी शोधक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Radyoaktif izleyici
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tracciante radioattivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

znacznika radioaktywnego
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

радіоактивний ізотоп
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trasor radioactiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ραδιενεργό ιχνηθέτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

radioaktiewe spoorder
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

radioaktivt spårämne
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

radioaktiv tracer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of radioactive tracer

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RADIOACTIVE TRACER»

The term «radioactive tracer» is normally little used and occupies the 119.135 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RADIOACTIVE TRACER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about radioactive tracer

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RADIOACTIVE TRACER»

Discover the use of radioactive tracer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to radioactive tracer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry: Chemical applications of ...
The advantage of the radioactive tracer technique lies first of all in its high sensitivity. When an appropriate carrier-free tracer is employed, picogram (10 I2 g) or less of an element can be easily detected with conventional detectors. As a matter ...
Attila Vértes, Sándor Nagy, Zoltan Klencsár, 2003
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College Physics: Reasoning and Relationships
After ingesting a radioactive tracer, the patient enters an apparatus like the one shown here. This device measures the gamma rays emitted when positrons annihilate with electrons and determines the sites from which they are emitted.
Nicholas Giordano, 2009
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A Text Book of Inorganic Chemistry
2.9 RADIOACTIVE TRACER TECHNIQUES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS A stable element and its radioactive isotope possess identical properties. Hence a radioactive isotope enters into exactly the same chemical and biological processes as ...
Anil Kumar De, 2007
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Advances in Isotope Methods for the Analysis of Trace ...
... 3.5 and 3.10) with a formalism similar to the one in use with radioactive tracer ( Equations 3.5 and 3.6). It follows that parameters k and M can be estimated for the radioactive tracer, since the solution for ttr is very similar to the solution for c: ...
Malcolm Jackson, Nicola Lowe, 2000
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Chemical Storylines
a What sort of measurements do you think it would be necessary to make on patients if they received treatment involving a radioactive tracer? b Suggest why there are advantages in using a short-lived radioactive isotope of calcium. c Suggest ...
‎2000
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Tracers in the Oil Field
In this method, a vial of radioactive tracer is cut when the axis of the cone moves off center, releasing the tracer into the mud column. Kr-85 was proposed as a wear indicator in several patents. In some, tracer was released into the mud system ...
B. Zemel, 1995
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Fluorine Compounds—Advances in Research and Application: ...
ScholarlyBrief. “v) recovering a solution containing the radioactive tracer provided with a radioactive isotope of fluorine obtained at the end of step (iii). “ According to one embodiment, the precursor of the radioactive tracer considered according ...
‎2013
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Minute, non-poisonous amounts of drugs, vitamins, and poisons can be followed around in the body by the radioactive tracer method, because of the great detection sensitivity. "Tagged" drugs will shed new light on the site and mode of action ...
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Biology: Concepts and Applications without Physiology
A typical radioactive tracer is a molecule in which radioisotopes have been swapped for one or more atoms. Researchers deliver radioactive tracers into a biological system such as a cell or a multicelled body. Instruments that can detect  ...
Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr, 2010
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Proceedings of the Federal Inter-Agency Sedimentation ...
Abstract Radioactive tracer techniques were employed in order to investigate the dispersion and transport of bed material in a test reach of the North Loup River near Purdum, Nebr. Sand particles, labeled with iridium-192, were used as ...
‎1965

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RADIOACTIVE TRACER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term radioactive tracer is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cambridge University scientists use radioactive agent to detect …
Scientists have gone back to the 1960s to repurpose a radioactive agent so it can be ... fluoride that had been tagged with a tiny amount of a radioactive tracer. «Cambridge News, Jul 15»
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1960s radioactive agent could prevent heart attacks
SCOTTISH scientists have discovered how a radioactive agent developed in the ... fluoride that had been tagged with a tiny amount of a radioactive tracer. «Scotsman, Jul 15»
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New Method Lets Doctors See Hardening Of The Arteries
A radioactive agent first pioneered in the 1960s for the purpose of detecting bone ... with sodium fluoride tagged with a very small amount of a radioactive tracer. «ReliaWire, Jul 15»
4
Houston, London-based Startup Company's Breast Cancer Tool …
Brazdeikis adds that Sentimag's incorporated magnetic tracer is much safer than traditional radioactive tracers, and has a longer shelf life. Because it is ... «BioNews Texas, Jul 15»
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A Woman's Reproductive Organs Were Accidentally Removed …
The woman received a PET/CT fusion scan, which injects the patient with a radioactive tracer that makes tumors appear as bright spots. When the scan lit up, ... «Cosmopolitan.com, Jun 15»
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Woman's Tattoos Mistaken for Cancer on Imaging Test
... from both PET and CT scans, and requires that patients receive an injection of a radioactive tracer that makes tumors appear as bright spots on the scan. «Live Science, Jun 15»
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How to create a cancer-seeking tracer
The creation of a radioactive tracer can take two to three years of intensive laboratory work. The first step is to find a molecular target — a biomarker associated ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
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Fallout from nuclear bomb testing presaged today's radioactive tracers
NUCLEAR BRAIN In 1965, researchers developed a way to track radioactive carbon in the body. Today, positron emission tomography (PET) scans work by the ... «Science News, Feb 15»
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Change agent: Creating new scans to track brain diseases
But the basic idea has been the same for more than three decades now: A patient gets an injection of a radioactive tracer into their bloodstream. Depending on ... «Medical Xpress, Jan 15»
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Tracking the Fukushima radioactivity plume across the Pacific
"We had a situation where the radioactive tracer was deposited at a very specific location off the coast of Japan at a very specific time," said John Smith, ... «Los Angeles Times, Dec 14»

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