Adding a New Species

To add a new “user-defined” species:

1. Double-click on the Species element in the graphics pane or the browser to access the Species editing dialog.

2. Double-click on the first species (to edit the default species in the list) or press the Add… button to add a species and access the Species definition dialog:

3. Enter the Species ID and description. The Species ID will default to SpeciesN (where N is the number of species defined). You can rename the species. The name must start with a letter, can only contain letters and numbers, and cannot contain any spaces.

4. Define the properties of the species.

You can move through the existing species that you have defined by using the Previous and Next buttons at the top of the Species definition dialog. If daughters are defined, you can jump directly to those daughters by clicking on the label (e.g., Daughter-1).

Note: Some of these fields (Daughter, Stoichiometry and Radioactive) are only available if you are using the RT Module. They are not available in the CT Module.

Note that within the RT Module (but not the CT Module), GoldSim provides an option to utilize a large built-in database of radionuclide decay data (species, decay rates and daughter products). In particular, you can select from a large set of built-in species instead of manually adding “user-defined” species. If you are using the RT Module but do not wish to access species from this database (and just want to add ‘user-defined” species yourself), simply make sure that the Display field in the Species dialog remains set to the default (“Modeled species”).

If you do choose to use the database of species, GoldSim will prevent the name of a “user-defined” species that you add from conflicting with the name of a species included in the database.

Note: You can also import species data from a spreadsheet.