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  2. Uranium-235 - Wikipedia

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    Uranium-235 (235 U or U-235) is an isotope of uranium making up about 0.72% of natural uranium. Unlike the predominant isotope uranium-238, it is fissile, i.e., it can sustain a nuclear chain reaction. It is the only fissile isotope that exists in nature as a primordial nuclide. Uranium-235 has a half-life of 703.8 million years.

  3. Decay chain - Wikipedia

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    The heaviest elements such as uranium have close to 1.5 neutrons per proton (e.g. 1.587 in uranium-238). No nuclide heavier than lead-208 is stable; these heavier elements have to shed mass to achieve stability, mostly by alpha decay .

  4. Isotopes of uranium - Wikipedia

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    234 U occurs in natural uranium as an indirect decay product of uranium-238, but makes up only 55 parts per million of the uranium because its half-life of 245,500 years is only about 1/18,000 that of 238 U. The path of production of 234 U is this: 238 U alpha decays to thorium-234. Next, with a short half-life, 234 Th beta decays to ...

  5. Decay scheme - Wikipedia

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    Decay scheme of 60 Co. These relations can be quite complicated; a simple case is shown here: the decay scheme of the radioactive cobalt isotope cobalt-60. [1] 60 Co decays by emitting an electron with a half-life of 5.272 years into an excited state of 60 Ni, which then decays very fast to the ground state of 60 Ni, via two gamma decays.

  6. Lead–lead dating - Wikipedia

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    where the subscripts P and I refer to present-day and initial Pb isotope ratios, λ 235 and λ 238 are decay constants for 235 U and 238 U, and t is the age. The concept of common Pb–Pb dating (also referred to as whole rock lead isotope dating) was deduced through mathematical manipulation of the above equations. [1]

  7. Radiometric dating - Wikipedia

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    One of its great advantages is that any sample provides two clocks, one based on uranium-235's decay to lead-207 with a half-life of about 700 million years, and one based on uranium-238's decay to lead-206 with a half-life of about 4.5 billion years, providing a built-in crosscheck that allows accurate determination of the age of the sample ...

  8. Enriched uranium - Wikipedia

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    Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235 U) has been increased through the process of isotope separation.Naturally occurring uranium is composed of three major isotopes: uranium-238 (238 U with 99.2732–99.2752% natural abundance), uranium-235 (235 U, 0.7198–0.7210%), and uranium-234 (234 U, 0.0049–0.0059%).

  9. Uranium - Wikipedia

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    There are also five other trace isotopes: uranium-240, a decay product of plutonium-244; [111] uranium-239, which is formed when 238 U undergoes spontaneous fission, releasing neutrons that are captured by another 238 U atom; uranium-237, which is formed when 238 U captures a neutron but emits two more, which then decays to neptunium-237 ...