What Is the Element Caesium Used For?

Question by undercover of darkness: What is the element Caesium used for?
and also, what is an atomic clock??

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Answer by jeffh3000
Well Ceasium is used for several purposes both industral and medical.

Used in Petroleum exploration, Atomic clocks commonly use caesium-133, used in power production and electronics (Magnetohydrodyamic (MHD) power-generating systems, photoelectric cells, optical character recognition devices, photomultiplier tubes, and video camera tubes), medical and chemical (solutions containing it and other compounds are commonly used in molecular biology for density gradient ultracentrifugation, primarily for the isolation of viral particles, sub-cellular organelles and fractions, and nucleic acids from biological samples, Caesium salts have been evaluated as antishock reagents to be used following the administration of arsenical drugs and the treatment of epilpsy)

It has been used in agriculture, cancer treatment, and sterilization of food, sewage sludge, and surgical equipment. Radioactive isotopes of caesium in radiation devices were used in the medical field to treat certain types of cancer. Caesium-137 has been employed in a variety of industrial measurement gauges, including moisture, density, leveling, and thickness gauges. It has also been used in well logging devices for measuring the electron density of the rock formations.

An atomic clock is simply a highly accurate clock that is atomic powered. Casesium-133 is one of the most popular elements used. Due to their extreme precision, they are used at the United States Naval Observatory Time Center in Washington, D.C., and in the aircraft, satellites, and ground systems that track the space shuttle. Caesium clocks are also used in networks that control the timing of cell phone transmissions, and caesium devices help control and regulate information flow on the Internet. Sites live time.gov use an atomic clock to display accurate time.