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  2. List of elements by stability of isotopes - Wikipedia

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    118 chemical elements are known to exist. All elements to element 94 are found in nature, and the remainder of the discovered elements are artificially produced, with isotopes all known to be highly radioactive with relatively short half-lives (see below). The elements in this list are ordered according to the lifetime of their most stable ...

  3. List of radioactive nuclides by half-life - Wikipedia

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    isotope half-life 10 −24 seconds ; hydrogen-5: 86(6) lithium-4: 91(9) hydrogen-4: 139(10) nitrogen-10: 143(36) oxygen-11: 198(12) helium-10: 260(40) hydrogen-6: 294(67) lithium-5

  4. Chemical stability - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, chemical stability is the thermodynamic stability of a chemical system, in particular a chemical compound or a polymer. [ 1 ] Thermodynamic stability occurs when a system is in its lowest energy state , or in chemical equilibrium with its environment.

  5. Chemically inert - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, the term chemically inert is used to describe a substance that is not chemically reactive.From a thermodynamic perspective, a substance is inert, or nonlabile, if it is thermodynamically unstable (positive standard Gibbs free energy of formation) yet decomposes at a slow, or negligible rate.

  6. Noble gas - Wikipedia

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    The seventh member of group 18 is oganesson, an unstable synthetic element whose chemistry is still uncertain because only five very short-lived atoms (t 1/2 = 0.69 ms) have ever been synthesized (as of 2020 [3]).

  7. Synthetic element - Wikipedia

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    A synthetic element is one of 24 known chemical elements that do not occur naturally on Earth: they have been created by human manipulation of fundamental particles in a nuclear reactor, a particle accelerator, or the explosion of an atomic bomb; thus, they are called "synthetic", "artificial", or "man-made".

  8. Radionuclide - Wikipedia

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    More than 2400 radionuclides have half-lives less than 60 minutes. Most of those are only produced artificially, and have very short half-lives. For comparison, there are about 251 stable nuclides. All chemical elements can exist as radionuclides. Even the lightest element, hydrogen, has a well-known radionuclide, tritium.

  9. Isotopes of hydrogen - Wikipedia

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    The symbols D and T are sometimes used for deuterium and tritium; IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) accepts said symbols, but recommends the standard isotopic symbols 2 H and 3 H, to avoid confusion in alphabetic sorting of chemical formulas. [8] 1 H, with no neutrons, may be called protium to disambiguate. [9]