RE: how to speak isotopes/nuclides?

I would say superscript number element  e.g. forty potassium, two three eight uranium  if there is just a superscript and superscript subscript element if both super and subscripts are present, e.g. two three eight ninety two uranium.

Elaine



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Another thing to add to the document: how should prescripts on elements (isotopes) be spoken? I need to know what to say when there is a single super-prescript and when both a super and sup prescript are present.

Thanks,

   Neil