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Thulium-170 has a binding energy of 8 105.5144(43) keV per nucleon and a half-life of 128.6 ± 0.3 d.It decays by β − decay to 170 Yb about 99.869% of the time, and by electron capture to 170 Er about 0.131% of the time. [1]
half-life millennia 10 12 seconds protactinium-231: 32.76 1.034 lead-202: 52.5 1.66 lanthanum-137: 60 1.9 thorium-230: 75.38 2.379 nickel-59: 76 2.4 calcium-41: 103 3.3 neptunium-236: 154 4.9 uranium-233: 159.2 5.02 rhenium-186m: 200 6.3 technetium-99: 211.1 6.66 krypton-81: 229 7.2 tin-126: 230 7.3 uranium-234: 245.5 7.75 chlorine-36: 301 9.5 ...
Naturally occurring thulium (69 Tm) is composed of one stable isotope, 169 Tm (100% natural abundance).Thirty-nine radioisotopes have been characterized, with the most stable being 171 Tm with a half-life of 1.92 years, 170 Tm with a half-life of 128.6 days, 168 Tm with a half-life of 93.1 days, and 167 Tm with a half-life of 9.25 days.
Thulium-169 is thulium's only primordial isotope and is the only isotope of thulium that is thought to be stable; it is predicted to undergo alpha decay to holmium-165 with a very long half-life. [ 10 ] [ 22 ] The longest-lived radioisotopes are thulium-171, which has a half-life of 1.92 years, and thulium-170 , which has a half-life of 128.6 days.
In this situation it is generally uncommon to talk about half-life in the first place, but sometimes people will describe the decay in terms of its "first half-life", "second half-life", etc., where the first half-life is defined as the time required for decay from the initial value to 50%, the second half-life is from 50% to 25%, and so on.
This is the longest half-life directly measured for any unstable isotope; [4] only the half-life of tellurium-128 is longer. [ citation needed ] Of the chemical elements, only 1 element ( tin ) has 10 such stable isotopes, 5 have 7 stable isotopes, 7 have 6 stable isotopes, 11 have 5 stable isotopes, 9 have 4 stable isotopes, 5 have 3 stable ...
The half-life of this isotope is 6.480 days, [2] which corresponds to a total decay constant of 0.1070 d −1. Then the partial decay constants, as computed from the branching fractions, are 0.1050 d −1 for ε/β + decays, and 2.14×10 −4 d −1 for β − decays. Their respective partial half-lives are 6.603 d and 347 d.
This is the only nuclear isomer with a half-life so long that it has never been observed to decay. It is thus included in this list. ^^ Bismuth-209 was long believed to be stable, due to its half-life of 2.01×10 19 years, which is more than a billion times the age of the universe.