Word: c13
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced in quantities, may shed new light on the mysteries of human metabolism. It may also provide clues to the cause & cure of cancer, diabetes, hardening of the arteries, other metabolic diseases. It is like ordinary carbon but has a greater atomic weight. Absorbed into the system, C13 can be easily identified by its added weight, and precisely traced-with an electrical instrument-through the entire process of metabolism. Doctors may thus learn how food and drugs behave when they meet disease germs, or cancer, inside the body...