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Inorganic Chemicals > Isotopes > Radioisotopes > Radioactive Tracers
Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Laboratory Chemicals > Indicators and Reagents > Radioactive Tracers

Preferred term

Radioactive Tracers  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Radioactive Tracer
  • Radionuclide Tracer
  • Radionuclide Tracers
  • Tracer, Radioactive
  • Tracer, Radionuclide
  • Tracers, Radionuclide

Note

  • IM for general only

Scope note

  • Radioactive substances added in minute amounts to the reacting elements or compounds in a chemical process and traced through the process by appropriate detection methods, e.g., Geiger counter. Compounds containing tracers are often said to be tagged or labeled. (Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 12th ed)

History note

  • 91(75); was see under RADIOISOTOPES 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011849

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