How does one change the isotope of an element?

[ScienceKid2005]

Sorry if this is the wrong subforum i am new here

How could one turn Palladium-102 into palladium-103? Would you take a cyclotron and hit it with neutrons? Or would you take Rhodium-103 and hit it with protons? The only reason I ask is because it has a half life of 17 days, and because of that nobody would sell it. I was going to use it in an experiment.

Also if it turns out to be hitting it with protons, would using a linear accelerator work?

Once again I'm new sorry if this is the wrong thread

 

[Drakkith]

How could one turn Palladium-102 into palladium-103? Would you take a cyclotron and hit it with neutrons? Or would you take Rhodium-103 and hit it with protons?

I think either would work. I'm not sure which one is quicker or more efficient though.

. I was going to use it in an experiment.

If you're planning on making it yourself, don't even think about it. Particle accelerators have multiple hazards associated with them that make them extremely dangerous without the proper experience and equipment. And that's before you factor in the dangers of radioactive material.

 

[snorkack]

Sorry if this is the wrong subforum i am new here

How could one turn Palladium-102 into palladium-103? Would you take a cyclotron and hit it with neutrons? Or would you take Rhodium-103 and hit it with protons? The only reason I ask is because it has a half life of 17 days, and because of that nobody would sell it. I was going to use it in an experiment.

Also if it turns out to be hitting it with protons, would using a linear accelerator work?

p,n reactions are possible, but I thought them unpleasantly inefficient. Yet they are used. I am not sure cyclotron is a good means for neutron flux, but turns out it is used.
If you applied, say, neutron flux of reactor...
Natural Pd isotopes:
102 - 1,02 % - 3,4 barns - result Pd 103, half-life 17 days
104 - 11,1 % - 0,6 barns - result Pd-105, stable
105 - 22,3 % - 20 barns - result Pd-106, stable
106 - 27,3 % - 0,3 barns - result Pd-107, 6,5 million years
108 - 26,5 % - 8,5 barns - result Pd-109, 13 hours
110 - 11,7 % - 0,23 barns - result Pd-111, 5,5 hours

 

[mfb]

Put palladium-102 in a nuclear reactor.

If you have the necessary experience and equipment to work with Pd-103 safely you will also have access to research reactors that can do it.

 

[Vanadium 50]

because of that nobody would sell it.

People do sell it. The issue is that people won't sell it to you. Unless you have documentation that you have demonstrated to the appropriate regulators that you can handle it safely, nobody will sell you any. Just like poisons or explosives, or for that matter particle accelerators or nuclear reactors.