the resulting collisions cause the ions to lose or gain neutrons or protons and become unstable. This causes them to create thousands of rare isotopes, themselves highly unstable — often ...

There are three isotopes of hydrogen: hydrogen, deuterium (hydrogen-2) and tritium (hydrogen-3): if the atom loses one or more electrons, it becomes a positively-charged ion if the atom gains one ...

have reached a new milestone in isotope studies. They accelerated a high-power beam of uranium ions and delivered a record 10 ...

The electric and magnetic fields of an electrostatic accelerator system are used to filter out other isotopes from the ion beam. The high velocity means that molecules can be destroyed and removed ...