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For example, for a nuclide with half-life 6 × 10 7 years (60 million years), this means 77 half-lives have elapsed, meaning that for each mole (6.02 × 10 23 atoms) of that nuclide being present at the formation of Earth, only 4 atoms remain today. The seven shortest-lived primordial nuclides (i.e., the nuclides with the shortest half-lives ...
They have much longer half-lives in the range 211,000 years to 15.7 million years. Two of them, technetium-99 and iodine-129 , are mobile enough in the environment to be potential dangers, are free ( Technetium has no known stable isotopes) or mostly free of mixture with stable isotopes of the same element, and have neutron cross sections that ...
An even number of protons or neutrons is more stable (higher binding energy) because of pairing effects, so even–even nuclides are much more stable than odd–odd. One effect is that there are few stable odd–odd nuclides: in fact only five are stable, with another four having half-lives longer than a billion years.
A chart or table of nuclides maps the nuclear, or radioactive, behavior of nuclides, as it distinguishes the isotopes of an element.It contrasts with a periodic table, which only maps their chemical behavior, since isotopes (nuclides that are variants of the same element) do not differ chemically to any significant degree, with the exception of hydrogen.
The activated oxygen-16 nucleus emits a proton (hydrogen nucleus), and transmutes to nitrogen-16, which has a very short life (7.13 seconds) before decaying back to oxygen-16 (emitting 10.4 MeV beta particles and 6.13 MeV gamma radiations). [2] 16 8 O + 1 0 n → 1 1 p + 16 7 N (Decays rapidly) 16 7 N → γ + 0-1 e-+ 16 8 O
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