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Np with a half-life of 396.1 days. All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives that are less than 4.5 days, and the majority of these have half-lives that are less than 50 minutes. This element also has five meta states, with the most stable being 236m Np (t 1/2 22.5 hours). The isotopes of neptunium range from 219 Np to 244 Np
25.4 1.52 radon-221: 25.7 1.54 americium-244m: 26 1.6 uranium-235m: 26 1.6 astatine-205: 26.2 1.57 lead-214: 26.8 1.61 mendelevium-255: 27 1.6 bismuth-199: 27 1.6 einsteinium-248: 27 1.6 mendelevium-254m: 28 1.7 radon-209: 28.5 1.71 fermium-250: 30.4 1.82 thorium-226: 30.57 1.834 astatine-206: 30.6 1.84 bismuth-200m1: 31 1.9 plutonium-232: 33.7 ...
A chart or table of nuclides maps the nuclear, or radioactive, behavior of nuclides, as it distinguishes the isotopes of an element.It contrasts with a periodic table, which only maps their chemical behavior, since isotopes (nuclides that are variants of the same element) do not differ chemically to any significant degree, with the exception of hydrogen.
Fission product yields by mass for thermal neutron fission of U-235 and Pu-239 (the two typical of current nuclear power reactors) and U-233 (used in the thorium cycle). This page discusses each of the main elements in the mixture of fission products produced by nuclear fission of the common nuclear fuels uranium and plutonium.
A further 10 nuclides, platinum-190, samarium-147, lanthanum-138, rubidium-87, rhenium-187, lutetium-176, thorium-232, uranium-238, potassium-40, and uranium-235 have half-lives between 7.0 × 10 8 and 4.83 × 10 11 years, which means they have experienced at least 0.5% depletion since the formation of the Solar System about 4.6 × 10 9 years ...
Illustration of a proton–proton chain, from hydrogen forming deuterium, helium-3, and regular helium-4. Nuclear transmutation is the conversion of one chemical element or an isotope into another chemical element. [1] Nuclear transmutation occurs in any process where the number of protons or neutrons in the nucleus of an atom is changed.
Half-life of a radioisotope: t 1/2, T 1/2: Time taken for half the number of atoms present to decay + / / s [T] Number of half-lives n (no standard symbol) = / / dimensionless dimensionless Radioisotope time constant, mean lifetime of an atom before decay
It is important to note that a vast number of processes can release radioactivity into the environment, for example, the action of cosmic rays on the air is responsible for the formation of radioisotopes (such as 14 C and 32 P), the decay of 226 Ra forms 222 Rn which is a gas which can diffuse through rocks before entering buildings [6] [7] [8 ...