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Isotope vs Anisotopic - What's the difference?

isotope | anisotopic |

As a noun isotope

is .

As an adjective anisotopic is

(mathematics) lacking isotopy.

isotope

English

(wikipedia isotope)

Etymology 1

Coined in 1914 by British chemist Frederick Soddy from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physics) Any of two or more forms of an element where the atoms have the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons within their nuclei. As a consequence, atoms for the same isotope will have the same atomic number but a different mass number (atomic weight).
    • Derived terms
    * isotope analysis * isotope dilution * isotope geochemistry * isotope hydrology * isotope map * isotope separation * isotope shift * isotope table

    See also

    * isobar * isotone

    Etymology 2

    Possible back-formation from isotopy.

    Verb

    (isotop)
  • (topology) To define or demonstrate an isotopy of (one map with another).
    • Related terms
    * homotope

    Anagrams

    * * English back-formations ----

    anisotopic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (mathematics) Lacking isotopy
    • an anisotopic distribution
  • (chemistry, of an element) Having only one isotope
  • * {{quote-book, 1973, Ronald C. Denney, A Dictionary of Spectroscopy citation
    • , passage=Fluorine is a typical anisotopic element and mass spectra of molecules containing fluorine atoms are more simple than are those of corresponding chlorine and bromine compounds.}}

    Derived terms

    * anisotopically

    See also

    * anisotropic