Stanford researchers find a quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 08:42 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Whether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palette, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers. These markers, called isotopes, can tell scientists where the molecules that compose a substance are from, where they travelled, and what happened to them along the way. But doing these analyses has been complex and costly. Now, Stanford chemists have developed a new method to make isotopic analysis easier and less expensive...

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