nitrogen-15

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Nitrogen-15 is a stable, naturally occurring isotope of nitrogen widely used as a tracer in nuclear, chemical, and biological studies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf isotope
nitrogen isotope
stable isotope
belongsTo light stable isotopes
betaDecay not observed
bindingEnergyPerNucleon ≈7.48 MeV
contrastWith nitrogen-14
discoveredBy Harold Urey
surface form: H. C. Urey

Hugh S. Taylor
discoveryYear 1929
element nitrogen
enrichedForm 15N-enriched compounds
halfLife stable
heavierThan nitrogen-14
labelingType stable isotope labeling
massNumber 15
naturalAbundance 0.36%
0.37%
naturalOccurrence naturally occurring
neutronNumber 8
nuclearProperty NMR-active nucleus
quadrupoleMoment≈0
nuclearSpin 1/2
parity +
protonNumber 7
radioactive false
relativeAtomicMass 15.000108898
standardAtomicWeightContribution 15.000108898
symbol 15N
usedAs stable isotope tracer
usedFor measuring denitrification
measuring nitrification
measuring nitrogen fixation
studying protein turnover
studying trophic levels
tracing nitrogen transformations
usedIn 15N NMR spectroscopy
NMR spectroscopy
amino acid metabolism studies
biological studies
chemical studies
ecological studies
environmental tracing
fertilizer studies
food web analysis
forensic science
groundwater studies
isotope dilution analysis
mass spectrometry
metabolic flux analysis
metabolic labeling
nitrogen cycle studies
nuclear studies
paleodietary studies
plant nutrition studies
pollution source tracking
protein labeling
protein structure determination
soil nitrogen studies
stable isotope probing

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Bethe–Weizsäcker cycle involves nitrogen-15