Examples of carbon 13 in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Blue = winter and low carbon 13/low bone cell density. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022 Yellow = summer and high carbon 13/high bone density. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022 Carbon has two stable isotopes, measured as either carbon 12 or carbon 13. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Jan. 2022 Recent separate findings indicate that plant leaves receiving more light have a higher density of veins, as well as a higher ratio of a naturally occurring isotope called carbon 13. — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2021 Chemically, carbon 14 behaves exactly like its stable siblings (carbon 12 and carbon 13), allowing plants to absorb it during photosynthesis and then pass it up the food chain. — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2020 So researchers compare the amount of carbon 14 with the levels of carbon 12 and carbon 13 to determine how much time has passed since an organism perished. — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2020 This means that regions that once harbored photosynthetic life contain slightly lower amounts of carbon 13 than sterile areas. — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014 See More

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