Definitions for isotope

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isotope i·so·tope

Spelling: [ahy-suh-tohp]

IPA: /ˈaɪ səˌtoʊp/

Isotope is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 163 anagrams from letters in isotope (eioopst).

Definitions for isotope

noun

1. any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elements, in addition to over 800 radioactive isotopes, and every element has known isotopic forms. Isotopes of a single element possess almost identical properties.

Origin of isotope

1910-15; iso- + -tope Greek tópos place

Examples for isotope

Well, heavy water is made of one atom of oxygen plus two atoms of deuterium, which is the first isotope of hydrogen.

An isotope is just a different variety of the ordinary kind of atom in each element.

After eight years, traces of the isotope are expected to be extremely low.

Why nail the "power metal" down to an isotope of gold with an atomic weight of 197?

There must be another one in either wing, for the isotope plant and the cartridge-case plant.

Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen containing a proton and neutron in its nucleus, while normal hydrogen has only a proton.