The amount of meat in prehistoric diets can be determined by measuring the ratio of the isotopes nitrogen-15 to nitrogen-14 in bone from human remains. Carnivores concentrate 15N, so this ratio tells archaeologists how much meat was consumed. For mass spectrometer that has a path radius of 12.5cm for carbon-12 ions (mass 1.99*10^-26kg), find the seperation of the nitrogen-14 (mass 2.32*10^-26kg) and nitrogen-15 (mass 2.49*10^-26kg) isotopes at the detector.
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