strontium 87m

strontium 87m
a metastable radioactive isotope of strontium, atomic mass 87, having a half-life of 2.80 hours and decaying with emission of gamma rays (0.388 MeV); it is used in the form of the chloride or nitrate salt as a radioactive tracer in bone imaging.

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