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mattle.

"Oooooh Dr Soddy! The isotopes all look sae tasty ah canni choose. Ah think ah'll jist hae a dainty wee mattle at them aw."

Translation:

mattle: nibble (like a young animal).

"Ooooh Dr Soddy! The isotopes all look so tasty I cannot choose. I think I shall have a dainty small nibble at every one."

Margaret Todd, doctor and author (1859–1918), suggested the term isotope to Frederick Soddy Nobel prize winner.

[mattle spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

26, July, 2007

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Fatal radioactive elements for carbon based organic types.

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