Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an important property of strontium atoms, a highly useful element for modern ...

One should not make much of the very small observed range of isotopic fractionation in zinc because only a few samples were analyzed. Allegre, C. Edwards, B. This form of isotopic fractionation is ...

Small clouds of strontium atoms (blue) and rubidium atoms (red) are trapped together. The well-known properties of rubidium can be used to calibrate the applied magnetic field very precisely, which in ...

THE age of four samples of granitic rocks selected by the Establishment for Nuclear Materials (Beograd, Yugoslavia) has been measured by the rubidium/strontium method. All analyses were made on ...