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- noun physics The minor
stable isotope of chlorine, 3717Cl, having seventeenprotons and twentyneutrons ; it amounts to about 24% of theelement innature
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Chlorine-35 and chlorine-37 are atoms that contain the same number of protons, but chlorine-37 has two more neutrons in its nucleus.
SPACE.com 2010
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This compound is more often made with chlorine-37 than chlorine-35.
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They found that the ratio of chlorine-35 to chlorine-37 was very constant, and only varied by about 0.1 percent.
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In particular, they measured the prevalence of two kinds of chlorine atoms, called isotopes - chlorine-35 and chlorine-37.
SPACE.com 2010
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Chlorine-35 has two fewer neutrons in its nucleus than chlorine-37, and hence is lighter and was more prone to vaporizing out from the magma ocean.
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So if hydrogen were present, more chlorine-37 would escape the magma along with chlorine-35.
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Instead, they found a wide range in the ratios of chlorine-35 to chlorine-37.
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Furthermore, lunar rocks from the surface showed depleted values of chlorine-37 relative to the lighter chlorine-35 isotope, and subsurface lunar rock samples shielded from solar winds had higher, not lower, concentrations of chlorine-37.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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