Rubidium and Strontium then Yttrium, Zirconium.

铷和锶，然后是钇、锆。

Nie and her team centered their examinations on two main elements - potassium and rubidium.

聂及其团队将检测集中在两种主要元素上——钾和铷。

The process involved studying the behaviors of different kinds of isotopes found in potassium and rubidium.

这个过程涉及研究在钾和铷中发现的不同同位素的性能。

Instead, it’s one of the products that forms when another element, rubidium, decays.

相反，它是另一种元素铷衰变时形成的产物之一。

Rocks that have lots of clay or granite in them also tend to be high in rubidium, so they'll have more of the 87 isotope too.

含有大量粘土或花岗岩的岩石的铷含量往往也很高，因此它们也会含有更多的 87 同位素。

Rubidium gives a characteristic colour that is different from lilac of sodium or, I’m sorry, lilac of potassium or the orange of sodium.

铷给出了一种不同于钠的淡紫色或钾的淡紫色或钠的橙色的特征颜色。

Rocks that have lots of clay or granite in them also tend to be high in rubidium, so they’ll have more of the 87 isotope too.

含有大量粘土或花岗岩的岩石也往往富含铷，因此它们也会含有更多的 87 同位素。

So when the hammer falls, literally, we will break the glass, the rubidium will just drop into the big bucket of water that we’ve got underneath.

所以当锤子落下时， 从字面上看， 我们会打碎玻璃，铷会掉进我们下面的大水桶里。