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Contents
- 1. Identical outsides … different insides
- 2. Isotopic clocks: the persistence of carbon
- 3. You are what you eat … plus a few per mil
- 4. Measuring isotopes: counting the atoms
- 5. Physics heal thyself: isotopes in medicine
- 6. Measuring isotopes: mass spectrometers
- 7. Reconstructing the past and weathering the future
- 8. Scratching the surface with cosmogenic isotopes
- 9. Uranium, thorium, and their daughters
- 10. Probing the Earth with isotopes
- 11. Cosmic stopped clocks
- Epilogue