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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.
Indium-115 makes up 95.7% of all indium. Indium is one of three known elements (the others being tellurium and rhenium) of which the stable isotope is less abundant in nature than the long-lived primordial radioisotopes. [37] The stablest artificial isotope is indium-111, with a half-life of approximately 2.8 days. All other isotopes have half ...
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).
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 include jumping up and down make it difficult to measure half-lives between approximately 10 −19 and 10 −10 seconds.
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.
Elements 121 and 122 should be similar to actinium and thorium respectively. [7] At element 121, the superactinide series is expected to begin, when the 8s electrons and the filling 8p 1/2, 7d 3/2, 6f 5/2, and 5g 7/2 subshells determine the chemistry of these elements.
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
Aluminum warrants special mention because it is the most abundant metal and the third most abundant element in the Earth's crust; [3] despite this, it is not essential for life. With this sole exception, the eight most highly abundant elements in the Earth's crust, making up over 90% of the crustal mass, [3] are also essential for life.