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nuclide

nuclide

1 8.7
An atom with a specific number of protons and neutrons
  • noun
  • /ˈnjuːklaɪd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : nuclido
  • The table of nuclides displays each nuclide's number of protons and neutrons.
  • neutron-rich nuclides
  • stable nuclides
  • superheavy nuclides

The easiest way to demonstrate that nuclear fusion took place would be to actually measure the helium nuclide that were supposedly produced.

Examples

  • In this way, Caamao and company identified 11 new isomeric states of neutron-rich nuclides with mass numbers from 188 to 203.

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  • And then we go to the table of nuclides to get its atomic mass.

  • Figure 2 shows this wide-open region of unknown nuclides.

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  • Access to heavy nuclides on the neutron-rich side of the valley of stability is experimentally difficult, but highly desirable.

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  • While addressing a wide range of nuclear and applied science issues, these new facilities will provide important new opportunities for the study of isomers, especially in heavy, neutron-rich nuclides.

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  • The chart of nuclides shows naturally occurring stable nuclides (black squares) clustered along the valley of nuclear stability.

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  • A promising way of producing and studying neutron-rich nuclides and their excited states was pioneered at the GANIL laboratory in Caen, France, and the GSI laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany.

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  • Researchers study nuclides to understand their stability and decay patterns.

  • Each nuclide is represented in the chart according to its unique combination of protons and neutrons.

Synonyms

isotope
vsnuclide
  • Specialized
45 6.5

A form of a chemical element with the same number of protons but more or fewer neutrons in the nucleus

refers to a single atom defined by exact proton and neutron numbers

Surface Forms

nuclide singular
nuclides plural

Morphology

nuclide = nucleus (semi-transparent) = nucl + ide

Formally built from the stem related to 'nucleus' plus the technical suffix '-ide', but the precise technical meaning requires domain knowledge.

Etymology

The word nuclide comes from nucleus, which means 'core', and the chemical ending -ide, as in oxide, which names kinds of atoms. So a nuclide is a specific kind of atomic 'core' with a fixed number of protons and neutrons.