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Of the 26 "monoisotopic" elements that have only a single stable isotope, all but one have an odd atomic number—the single exception being beryllium. In addition, no odd-numbered element has more than two stable isotopes, while every even-numbered element with stable isotopes, except for helium, beryllium, and carbon, has at least three.
Experiments aimed at synthesizing elements ranging in atomic number from 110 to 127 were conducted at laboratories around the world. [51] [52] These elements were sought in fusion-evaporation reactions, in which a heavy target made of one nuclide is irradiated by accelerated ions of another in a cyclotron, and new nuclides are produced after ...
Lutetium's compounds almost always contain the element in the 3+ oxidation state. [21] Aqueous solutions of most lutetium salts are colorless and form white crystalline solids upon drying, with the common exception of the iodide, which is brown. The soluble salts, such as nitrate, sulfate and acetate form hydrates upon crystallization.
isotope half-life 10 −6 seconds ; lead-196m2 <1 polonium-192m ~1 radon-210m3: 1.04 thorium-219: 1.05 polonium-206m2: 1.05 radon-210m2: 1.06 curium-243m: 1.08 actinium-218
A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z). [ 1 ] The definitive visualisation of all 118 elements is the periodic table of the elements , whose history along the principles of the periodic law was one of the founding ...
Of the 80 elements with at least one stable isotope, 26 have only one stable isotope. The mean number of stable isotopes for the 80 stable elements is 3.1 stable isotopes per element. The largest number of stable isotopes for a single element is 10 (for tin, element 50).
59 Co is the only stable cobalt isotope and the only isotope that exists naturally on Earth. Twenty-two radioisotopes have been characterized: the most stable, 60 Co, has a half-life of 5.2714 years; 57 Co has a half-life of 271.8 days; 56 Co has a half-life of 77.27 days; and 58 Co has a half-life of 70.86 days.
Naturally occurring manganese is composed of one stable isotope, 55 Mn. Several radioisotopes have been isolated and described, ranging in atomic weight from 46 u (46 Mn) to 72 u (72 Mn). The most stable are 53 Mn with a half-life of 3.7 million years, 54 Mn with a half-life of 312.2 days, and 52 Mn with a half-life of 5.591