Radioactive iodine uptake testing is a useful diagnostic tool for assessing thyroid pathologies. The atom is the smallest unit of an element. An atom consists of electrons, protons and neutrons. Electrons revolve around the nucleus (made of protons and neutrons) in fixed orbits. The number of electrons equals number of protons in a neutral atom.
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Cody received the nickname Buffalo Bill after the American Civil War, when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo (American bison) meat. Cody is purported to have killed 4,282 buffalo in eighteen months in 1867 and 1868.