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  2. List of radioactive nuclides by half-life - Wikipedia

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    Radioactive isotope table "lists ALL radioactive nuclei with a half-life greater than 1000 years", incorporated in the list above. The NUBASE2020 evaluation of nuclear physics properties F.G. Kondev et al. 2021 Chinese Phys. C 45 030001. The PDF of this article lists the half-lives of all known radioactives nuclides.

  3. Half-life - Wikipedia

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    Half-life (symbol t½) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value. The term is commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay or how long stable atoms survive. The term is also used more generally to characterize any type of exponential (or, rarely ...

  4. Isotopes of lutetium - Wikipedia

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    This element also has 18 meta states, with the most stable being 177m Lu (t 1/2 160.4 days), 174m Lu (t 1/2 142 days) and 178m Lu (t 1/2 23.1 minutes). The known isotopes of lutetium range in mass number from 149 to 190. The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, 175 Lu, is electron capture (with some alpha and positron ...

  5. Table of nuclides - Wikipedia

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    A table or chart of nuclides is a two-dimensional graph of isotopes of the elements, in which one axis represents the number of neutrons (symbol N) and the other represents the number of protons (atomic number, symbol Z) in the atomic nucleus. Each point plotted on the graph thus represents a nuclide of a known or hypothetical chemical element.

  6. Decay energy - Wikipedia

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    The decay energy is the mass difference Δm between the parent and the daughter atom and particles. It is equal to the energy of radiation E. If A is the radioactive activity, i.e. the number of transforming atoms per time, M the molar mass, then the radiation power P is: or. or. Example: 60 Co decays into 60 Ni. The mass difference Δm is 0.003 u.

  7. Island of stability - Wikipedia

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    Island of stability. A diagram by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research showing the measured (boxed) and predicted half-lives of superheavy nuclides, ordered by number of protons and neutrons. The expected location of the island of stability around Z = 112 (copernicium) is circled. [1][2] In nuclear physics, the island of stability is a ...

  8. Isotopes of oxygen - Wikipedia

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    There are three known stable isotopes of oxygen (8 O): 16O, 17O, and 18O. Radioactive isotopes ranging from 11O to 28O have also been characterized, all short-lived. The longest-lived radioisotope is 15O with a half-life of 122.266 (43) s, while the shortest-lived isotope is the unbound 11O with a half-life of 198 (12) yoctoseconds, though half ...

  9. Induced radioactivity - Wikipedia

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    Induced radioactivity, also called artificial radioactivity or man-made radioactivity, is the process of using radiation to make a previously stable material radioactive. [1] The husband-and-wife team of Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie discovered induced radioactivity in 1934, and they shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...