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The remainder and the unlisted 54.4478% decay with half-lives less than one year into nonradioactive nuclei. This is before accounting for the effects of any subsequent neutron capture; e.g.:
The usual English proper name for Earth's natural satellite is simply Moon, with a capital M. [19] [20] The noun moon is derived from Old English mōna, which (like all its Germanic cognates) stems from Proto-Germanic *mēnōn, [21] which in turn comes from Proto-Indo-European *mēnsis 'month' [22] (from earlier *mēnōt, genitive *mēneses) which may be related to the verb 'measure' (of time).