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Np. Trace quantities are found in nature from neutron capture reactions by uranium atoms, a fact not discovered until 1951. [2] Twenty-five neptunium radioisotopes have been characterized, with the most stable being 237 Np with a half-life of 2.14 million years, 236 Np with a half-life of 154,000 years, and 235 Np with a half-life of 396.1 days.
This page lists radioactive nuclides by their half-life.
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.
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About 338 nuclides are found naturally on Earth. These comprise 251 stable isotopes, and with the addition of the 35 long-lived radioisotopes with half-lives longer than 100 million years, a total of 286 primordial nuclides, as noted above.
The radioisotopes were separated from neutron-irradiated target elements using remotely controlled robotic arms in heavily shielded hot cells in the nearby Radiochemical Engineering Development ...
Periodic table for looking up element numbers (atomic number). The isotope tables given below show all of the known isotopes of the chemical elements, arranged with increasing atomic number from left to right and increasing neutron number from top to bottom.
A trace radioisotope is a radioisotope that occurs naturally in trace amounts (i.e. extremely small). Generally speaking, trace radioisotopes have half-lives that are short in comparison with the age of the Earth, since primordial nuclides tend to occur in larger than trace amounts. Trace radioisotopes are therefore present only because they ...