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Synonyms for tracer

an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods

an instrument used to make tracings

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(radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes

ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke

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What is the future like for those who would want to study your career?As a new profession in Kenya, industrial application of radio tracer is a career which still doesn't have many local people in it, therefore opportunities are many.
Besides an ease of low speed and stationary handling, the Tracer's relative light-weight means the engine and brakes have less work to do.
Because the difference in tracer concentrations in drinking water was small among the three cities, the median tracer concentration of all samples was used to calculate SIR by Equation 1.
Compared with aluminum tracer pebbles, the advantage of iron tracer pebbles is that their density difference between background pebbles is greater, which makes them easier to be distinguished.
(2010) states that two basic features characterize a substance as a tracer: (i) it must behave exactly like the medium under study in order to accurately reproduce the dynamics characteristics of the medium, and (ii) it has to be easily detectable in the medium in which it is mixed.
Tracerco's Tracer Production Log (TPL) will enable measurement of both oil and water in various zones within long horizontal wells.
In the fall test period the BNL Tracer Technology Group (TTG) performed an indoor building air flow test on the RSB.
announced today a huge savings opportunity for a Central Plains gas distributor with their product called the Tracer Snap[c].
He added that BISP will make the final payments to the service providers only after the finalization of the Tracer study expected to be completed by 30th September, 2014.
Dr Kalumbi Shangula, Chairperson of the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) launched the Namibia Tracer Studies (NAMTRACE) Survey this week at the Polytechnic Hotel and Tourism School.
The tracer study, once completed, would be helpful in processing the claims of the service providers.
The art and science of skip tracing has seen major changes in the last ten years and the tools and techniques utilized by the professional tracer have also changed based on technology and data sources.