Nitrogen-15 is a stable isotope with seven protons and eight neutrons. Its nuclear spin is one-half, making it useful in isotope-labeling and nuclear-magnetic-resonance studies.
Replacing nitrogen-14 by nitrogen-15 changes mass and nuclear-spin properties while preserving closely related electronic chemistry. Enrichment can therefore make specific nitrogen-containing sites easier to observe in a complex biological molecule.
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