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  2. Technetium - Wikipedia

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    Technetium scintigraphy of a neck of Graves' disease patient. Technetium-99m ("m" indicates that this is a metastable nuclear isomer) is used in radioactive isotope medical tests. For example, technetium-99m is a radioactive tracer that medical imaging equipment tracks in the human body.

  3. Isotopes of iron - Wikipedia

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    Iron-60 has a half-life of 2.6 million years, [12] [13] but was thought until 2009 to have a half-life of 1.5 million years. It undergoes beta decay to cobalt-60 , which then decays with a half-life of about 5 years to stable nickel-60.

  4. Synthetic element - Wikipedia

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    The first, technetium, was created in 1937. [3] Plutonium (Pu, atomic number 94), first synthesized in 1940, is another such element. It is the element with the largest number of protons (atomic number) to occur in nature, but it does so in such tiny quantities that it is far more practical to synthesize it.

  5. Isotopes of technetium - Wikipedia

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    Technetium (43 Tc) is one of the two elements with Z < 83 that have no stable isotopes; the other such element is promethium. [2] It is primarily artificial, with only trace quantities existing in nature produced by spontaneous fission (there are an estimated 2.5 × 10 −13 grams of 99 Tc per gram of pitchblende) [3] or neutron capture by molybdenum.

  6. Fission products (by element) - Wikipedia

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    As the longest-lived radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 has a half-life of only 373.59 days, it has been suggested that the ruthenium and palladium in PUREX raffinate should be used as a source of the metals after allowing the radioactive isotopes to decay. [4] [5] After ten half life cycles have passed over 99.96% of any radioisotope is stable ...

  7. Group 7 element - Wikipedia

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    The longer-lived isotope, technetium-95m with a half-life of 61 days, is used as a radioactive tracer to study the movement of technetium in the environment and in plant and animal systems. [ 116 ] Technetium-99 decays almost entirely by beta decay, emitting beta particles with consistent low energies and no accompanying gamma rays.

  8. Nucleosynthesis - Wikipedia

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    Because technetium is radioactive, with a half-life much less than the age of the star, its abundance must reflect its recent creation within that star. Equally convincing evidence of the stellar origin of heavy elements is the large overabundances of specific stable elements found in stellar atmospheres of asymptotic giant branch stars.

  9. Isotopes in medicine - Wikipedia

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    Radioactive isotopes are used in medicine for both treatment and diagnostic scans. The most common isotope used in diagnostic scans is Technetium-99m , used in approximately 85% of all nuclear medicine diagnostic scans worldwide.