Give two important applications of radioactive isotopes.
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Radioactive isotopes have manyuseful applications. In medicine, for example, cobalt-60 is extensively employed as a radiation source to arrest the development of cancer. Other radioactive isotopes are used as tracers for diagnostic purposes as well as in research on metabolic processes.
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Two Important Applications of Radioactive Isotopes are as follows:
- Radioactive Isotopes are used to treat cancerous tumors, when radioactive isotopes are injected with monoclonal antibodies into a cancer patient, they help the antibodies to bind and destroy the tumor.
- As the radioactivity of these isotopes is easy to detect, they are effectively used as a Tracer. A tracer is basically a substance that can be used to follow the pathway of any substance through some structure.
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