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What is radioactive isotope?mention its applications too.​

Answer 1

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Radioactive isotopes have many useful 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.

in medicine, Radioisotopes have found extensive use in diagnosis and therapy, and this has given rise to a rapidly growing field called nuclear medicine. These radioactive isotopes have proven particularly effective as tracers in certain diagnostic procedures.

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Answer 2

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• Isotopes are atoms of same elements that have same number of protons  and electrons but different number of neutrons in them.
• Radioisotopes are isotopes of elements and are radioactive.
• Their nuclei  decay over time to form other isotopes.

Radioactive Isotopes have many applications some of them includes:-

• Cobalt 60 an isotope of cobalt is used in treating cancer.

• Isotopes of some elements like Uranium, Radium, Polonium  are used in atomic reactors for power generation.

• An isotope of carbon (Carbon 14) is used in carbon dating process to determine the age of fossils.