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All the remaining ones have half-lives ranging from 30 minutes to less than a millisecond. [16] The neutron capture product of fermium-257, 258 Fm, undergoes spontaneous fission with a half-life of just 370(14) microseconds; 259 Fm and 260 Fm also undergo spontaneous fission (t 1/2 = 1.5(3) s and 4 ms respectively). [16]
Country Production in thousand tonnes Year World 70,000 2023 China 41,500: 2023 India 4,100: 2023 Russia 3,800: 2023 Canada 3,000: 2023 United Arab Emirates 2,700: 2023 Bahrain
Einsteinium and fermium were discovered by a team of scientists led by Albert Ghiorso in 1952 while studying the composition of radioactive debris from the detonation of the first hydrogen bomb. [19] The isotopes synthesized were einsteinium-253, with a half-life of 20.5 days, and fermium-255 , with a half-life of about 20 hours.
When there is no public data on the element in its pure form, price of a compound is used, per mass of element contained. This implicitly puts the value of compounds' other constituents, and the cost of extraction of the element, at zero.
As it is normal to allow used nuclear fuel to stand for about five years before reprocessing, much of this activity will decay away leaving 4.7 MBq of 102 Rh and 5.0 MBq of 102m Rh. If the rhodium metal was then left for 20 years after fission, the 13.3 grams of rhodium metal would contain 1.3 kBq of 102 Rh and 500 kBq of 102m Rh.
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This is a list of radioactive nuclides (sometimes also called isotopes), ordered by half-life from shortest to longest, in seconds, minutes, hours, days and years. Current methods make it difficult to measure half-lives between approximately 10 −19 and 10 −10 seconds.