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📅 NSB 2018🎓 MS🔄 Round 11#️⃣ Question 10🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

Researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab recently developed a device that can manufacture on demand technetium-99m [tek-NEE-shee-um 99 M], a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 6 hours. For what purpose will this technetium isotope be used?

W) Research into nuclear shell structure
X) Source for high-energy X-rays
Y) Medical diagnostics
Z) Research into CP violation in the weak force
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