Little help?

[baloonworld]

I'm trying to dumb downsimplify my reserch (Recoil decay tagging of Cs-112) for presenting to the general public (in this case, a royal bank of scotland manager), and I'm kind of defeated, because I don't know how ignorant the general public is about nuclear structure (My supervisor is even worse).

at preset my introduction reads:

It is presently of considerable interest in nuclear physics to study very exotic nuclei which lie very far from the valley of stability. These nuclei are difficult to produce and study experimentally, but recent developments in detectors has made this study possible.

Do I need to add:

exotic= containing may more or fewer neutrons than is normal for the element; unstable.
vally of stablitiy = the general trend for the relative number of neutrons and protons in a stable element.
unstable = radioactive.

Would it be better to drop "vally of stablitiy" in favor of somthig more literal ad descriptive?

Do you know what a isotope is?

Comments

[almosthonest.livejournal.com]

It was the "valley of stability" that, whilst evocative as a name, still benefitted from your clarification. You could define what exotic means here, but exotic means "weird" anyway, which is what I assumed.

Isotope. Not only do I know what this means, but I also cannot wrest a single pun from it, and I've tried for five minutes. I fail.

[indigogecko.livejournal.com]

well, isotope not. Otherwise we might have to kill you. *runs*

[baloonworld.livejournal.com]

Alex=defeated; victory!

[almosthonest.livejournal.com]

.....

-jaw drop-

Not only did I not see that, I then set it up for you! The shame....

-tips hat to you-

-opens whiskey bottle of shame-