Testing For Radioactivity in Organisms
Remember the nuclear accident at Chernobyl (former Soviet Union - now the territory of Ukraine) in 1986?
A scientist suspects that the food in a nearby ecosystem may have been contaminated with radioactive nitrogen over a period of months.
Which substances in plants and animals could be examined for radioactivity to test his hypothesis?
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This question relates to the fact that nitrogen is naturally found in two main types of compounds in plants and animals - ...
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