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228 Ra: 228 Ra MsTh 1: Mesothorium 1 β −: 5.75 a 0.046 228 Ac: 228 Ac MsTh 2: Mesothorium 2 β −: 6.25 h 2.124 228 Th: 228 Th RdTh Radiothorium α 1.9116 a 5.520 224 Ra: 224 Ra ThX Thorium X α 3.6319 d 5.789 220 Rn: 220 Rn Tn Thoron, Thorium Emanation α 55.6 s 6.404 216 Po: 216 Po ThA Thorium A α 0.145 s 6.906 212 Pb: 212 Pb ThB Thorium ...
Radium (88 Ra) has no stable or nearly stable isotopes, and thus a standard atomic weight cannot be given. The longest lived, and most common, isotope of radium is 226 Ra with a half-life of 1600 years. 226 Ra occurs in the decay chain of 238 U (often referred to as the radium series). Radium has 34 known isotopes from 201 Ra to 234 Ra.
226 Ra is the most stable isotope of radium and is the last isotope in the (4 n + 2) decay chain of uranium-238 with a half-life of over a millennium; it makes up almost all of natural radium. Its immediate decay product is the dense radioactive noble gas radon (specifically the isotope 222 Rn ), which is responsible for much of the danger of ...
The 4n decay chain of 232 Th, commonly called the "thorium series" Thorium-232 has a half-life of 14 billion years and mainly decays by alpha decay to radium-228 with a decay energy of 4.0816 MeV. [3] The decay chain follows the thorium series, which terminates at stable lead-208. The intermediates in the thorium-232 decay chain are all ...
The decay-chain of uranium-238, which contains radium-226 as an intermediate decay product. 226 Ra occurs in the decay chain of uranium-238 (238 U), which is the most common naturally occurring isotope of uranium. It undergoes alpha decay to radon-222, which is also radioactive; the decay chain ultimately terminates at lead-206.
The tailings contain mainly decay products from the decay chain involving Uranium-238. [1] Uranium tailings contain over a dozen radioactive nuclides, which are the primary hazard posed by the tailings. The most important of these are thorium-230, radium-226, radon-222 (radon gas) and the daughter isotopes of radon decay, including polonium-210.
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Radon-222 (222 Rn, Rn-222, historically radium emanation or radon) is the most stable isotope of radon, with a half-life of approximately 3.8 days. It is transient in the decay chain of primordial uranium-238 and is the immediate decay product of radium-226.