chlorine-36
Noun. (isotope) A long-lived radioactive isotope of chlorine, (nuclide, 36) , having seventeen protons and nineteen neutrons, and a half-life of 3x105 years; it can be used to date samples of groundwater.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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