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302745 (v.2) Isotope Science 402
Area: Department of Applied Physics Contact Hours: 6.0 Credits: 25.0 Lecture: 2 x 2 Hours Weekly Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly Other Requisite(s): Admission: to the Physics honours program
Selected topic from principles of mass spectrometer operation. Ion optics, ion sources, mass dispersion, detectors. Automation. Measurement of isotopic abundance. Isotope dilution. Modern mass spectrometers including TIMS and SHRIMP. Atomic weights and measurement science. A selection of modern applications stable isotopes and health, nuclear waster storage and fossil reactors, isotopic tracers for pollution history and environmental science, radiometric dating of the earth, nucleosynthesis and the abundance of the elements.
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