created sense approved 同位素 · tóngwèisù · isotope — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
同位素
tóngwèisù
isotope
Variants of a chemical element that have the same number of protons and occupy the same position in the periodic table, but have a different number of neutrons; often used in medical diagnosis, biological tracing, and geological dating.
同位 (literal) → 同位 · tóngwèi · apposition 素 (literal) → 素 · sù · element
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition