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Definition of Oxygen-17
1. Noun. (isotope) A rare stable isotope of oxygen, (nuclide 17 8 O), having eight protons and nine neutrons; it amounts to 0.037% of the element in nature ¹
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Medical Definition of Oxygen-17
1. The rarest of the stable oxygen isotopes, making up 0.04% of natural oxygen. (05 Mar 2000)