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Astatine-218 was the first astatine isotope discovered in nature. [113] Astatine-219, with a half-life of 56 seconds, is the longest lived of the naturally occurring isotopes. [6] Isotopes of astatine are sometimes not listed as naturally occurring because of misconceptions [103] that there are no such isotopes, [114] or discrepancies in the ...
All of astatine's isotopes are short-lived; the most stable is astatine-210, with a half-life of 8.1 hours. Astatine is sometimes described as probably being a black solid (assuming it follows this trend), or as having a metallic appearance. Astatine is predicted to be a semiconductor, with a band gap of about 0.7 eV.
Astatine-212 and astatine-216 are expected to decay either way. The most stable isotope of astatine is astatine-210, which has a half-life of about 8.1 hours. This isotope's primary decay mode is positron emission to the relatively long-lived alpha emitter, polonium-210. In total, only five isotopes of astatine have half-lives exceeding one ...
The following table gives the crystalline structure of the most thermodynamically stable form(s) for elements that are solid at standard temperature and pressure. Each element is shaded by a color representing its respective Bravais lattice, except that all orthorhombic lattices are grouped together.
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The pnictogens exemplify the transition from nonmetal to metal going down the periodic table: a gaseous diatomic nonmetal (N), two elements displaying many allotropes of varying conductivities and structures (P and As), and then at least two elements that only form metallic structures in bulk (Sb and Bi; probably Mc as well).
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The group of halogens is the only periodic table group that contains elements in three of the main states of matter at standard temperature and pressure, though not far above room temperature the same becomes true of groups 1 and 15, assuming white phosphorus is taken as the standard state. [n 1] All of the halogens form acids when bonded to ...