Definition of carbon 13
: an isotope of carbon of mass number 13 that constitutes about ¹/₇₀ of natural carbon and is used as a tracer especially in spectroscopy utilizing nuclear magnetic resonance
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The first known use of carbon 13 was in 1936
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