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The longest-lived isotope is 247 Cm, with half-life 15.6 million years – orders of magnitude longer than that of any known isotope beyond curium, and long enough to study as a possible extinct radionuclide that would be produced by the r-process. [2] [3] The longest-lived known isomer is 246m Cm with a half-life of 1.12 seconds.
Curium-243 is not suitable for such, due to its short half-life and strong α emission, which would cause excessive heat. [45] Curium-247 would be highly suitable due to its long half-life, which is 647 times longer than plutonium-239 (used in many existing nuclear weapons ).
This is a list of radioactive nuclides (sometimes also called isotopes), ordered by half-life from shortest to longest, in seconds, minutes, hours, days and years. Current methods make it difficult to measure half-lives between approximately 10 −19 and 10 −10 seconds.
Half-life range Fission products of 235 U by yield [2] 4n 4n + 1 4n + 2 4n + 3 4.5–7% 0.04–1.25% <0.001% 228 Ra № 4–6 a: 155 Eu þ: 248 Bk [3] > 9 a: 244 Cm ƒ: 241 Pu ƒ: 250 Cf 227 Ac № 10–29 a: 90 Sr 85 Kr 113m Cd þ: 232 U ƒ: 238 Pu ƒ: 243 Cm ƒ: 29–97 a: 137 Cs 151 Sm þ: 121m Sn 249 Cf ƒ: 242m Am ƒ: 141–351 a No ...
Curium metal is a radionuclide and emits alpha particles upon radioactive decay. [12] Although it has a half life of 34 ms, many curium oxides, including curium sesquioxide, have half lives nearing thousands of years. [7] Curium, in the form of curium sesquioxide, can be inhaled into the body, causing many biological defects.
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In this situation it is generally uncommon to talk about half-life in the first place, but sometimes people will describe the decay in terms of its "first half-life", "second half-life", etc., where the first half-life is defined as the time required for decay from the initial value to 50%, the second half-life is from 50% to 25%, and so on.