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carbon-13
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carbon-13 (13C),
a naturally occurring isotope of carbon, with an atomic mass of 13, occurring 1.11% of the time. It is used as a tracer in liver function tests and a few metabolic tests.


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Three independent methods, deuterium NMR, carbon 13 NMR and differential scanning calorimetry, can be used by the same researchers on the same samples of food to accurately measure the mobility of water and solids and to predict microbial growth.
pylori breaks down the urea, carbon dioxide containing the carbon 13 is formed.
The Carbon 12 to Carbon 13 ratio in a comet tells us about the material that was present in the dense interstellar medium that formed our Sun.
 
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