Explore: Radioactive Tracers In Hydrology

gamma-emitting industrial radioactive tracers, with applications in isotope hydrology and leak detection. Since the late 1940s, radioactive tracers have been used

Isotope hydrology is a field of geochemistry and hydrology that uses naturally occurring stable and radioactive isotopic techniques to evaluate the age

by other means. Tracers can be radioactive or chemical, gas or liquid and have been used extensively in the oil industry and hydrology for decades. "Using

used in a medical and scientific setting as a radioactive tracer. Tritium is also used as a nuclear fusion fuel, along with more abundant deuterium, in tokamak

application is isotopic labeling, the use of unusual isotopes as tracers or markers in chemical reactions. Normally, atoms of a given element are indistinguishable

and atmospheric studies. Conservative tracers remain constant following fluid parcels, whereas reactive tracers (such as compounds undergoing a mutual

chemical processes. Radiogenic isotope tracers are most powerful when used together with other tracers: The more tracers used, the more control on mixing processes

focusing in hydrology and is currently professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is recognized for pioneering research in stochastic

has a half-life of about 30 years and is used in medical applications, industrial gauges, and hydrology. Nonradioactive caesium compounds are only mildly

elucidate nuclear properties and reactions, used radioactive substances as tracers, and measure radionuclides in many different types of samples. The importance