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carbon 13

noun

Definition of CARBON 13

:  an isotope of carbon of mass number 13 that constitutes about 170 of natural carbon and is used as a tracer especially in spectroscopy utilizing nuclear magnetic resonance
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First Known Use of CARBON 13

1939

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