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Nitrogen-15, N
General
SymbolN
Namesnitrogen-15, 15N, N-15
Protons (Z)7
Neutrons (N)8
Nuclide data
Natural abundance0.37%
Isotope mass15.000 108 898 4(9) Da
Spin½
Parent isotopesO (β)
Isotopes of nitrogen
Complete table of nuclides

Nitrogen-15 is a stable, non-radioactive isotope of nitrogen. It is often used in agricultural and medical research. Nitrogen-15 is frequently used in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), because unlike the more abundant nitrogen-14, it has a nuclear spin of ½, which simplifies observation by NMR. Proteins can be isotopically labelled by cultivating them in a medium containing only nitrogen-15. In addition, nitrogen-15 is used to label proteins in quantitative proteomics (e.g. SILAC).

It is a product of oxygen-15 beta decay in stars.

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