isotopically
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isotopically (not comparable)
With regard to isotopes
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Early nuclear reactors did not use isotopically enriched uranium, and in consequence they were required to use large quantities of highly purified graphite as neutron moderation materials.
Concentrations are determined by measuring the ratio of the analyte to the appropriate isotopically labeled internal standard.
However, a pure gold ingot would be both chemically and isotopically pure, since ordinary gold consists only of one isotope, 197 Au.
Here, the proteins within a complex mixture are labeled first isotopically, and then digested to yield labeled peptides.
However it is not isotopically pure since ordinary copper consists of two stable isotopes, 69% 63 Cu and 31% 65 Cu, with different numbers of neutrons.
In particular, the 1997 observation by Skulan and DePaolo citation that calcium minerals are isotopically lighter than the solutions from which the minerals precipitate is the basis of analogous applications in medicine and in paleooceanography.