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What is a radioisotope?

What is a radioisotope? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) a radioactive isotope of an element
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The region of the lesion is injected with a blue dye and radioisotope tracer.
But every single atom of a radioisotope advertised its presence when it decayed, since the radiation could be detected with a Geiger counter.
Gamma decay does not generally affect the mass and atomic number of the radioisotope.
Each radioisotope has a unique half-life and can be a fraction of a second or billions of years.
In 1934 he used a radioisotope of phosphorus to study how human tissue absorbs phosphate.
Even a seemingly tiny piece of radioisotope like plutonium can be emitting many millions of alpha, beta or gamma particles per week.

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