cesium-133

radioisotope

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In quantum mechanics: Cesium clock
…the ground state of the cesium-133 atom. Prior to 1967, the second was defined in terms of the motion of Earth. The latter, however, is not nearly as stable as the cesium clock. Specifically, the fractional variation of Earth’s rotation period is a few hundred times larger than that of…
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