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    (Ra3N2). All isotopes of radium are radioactive, the most stable isotope being radium-226 with a half-life of 1,600 years. When radium decays, it emits...
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  • Radon (section Isotopes)
    is generated. Radon isotopes are the immediate decay products of radium isotopes. The instability of 222Rn, its most stable isotope, makes radon one of...
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    discovery of the elements polonium and radium, using techniques she invented for isolating radioactive isotopes. Under her direction, the world's first...
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    generally exist in multiple variants with different masses, or "isotopes". In the 1930s, isotopes would be shown to have nuclei with differing numbers of the...
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    they verified it with known isotopes of radium; the process was fine. Hahn and Strassmann found a fourth radium isotope. Their half-lives were formulated...
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  • This list contains fictional chemical elements, materials, isotopes or subatomic particles that either a) play a major role in a notable work of fiction...
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    from boron, radioactive isotopes of phosphorus from aluminium, and silicon from magnesium. Irradiating the natural stable isotope of aluminium with alpha...
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    Uranium (section Isotopes)
    4.5 billion years for different isotopes, making them useful for dating the age of the Earth. The most common isotopes in natural uranium are uranium-238...
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    Platinum (section Isotopes)
    Platinum also has 38 synthetic isotopes ranging in atomic mass from 165 to 208, making the total number of known isotopes 44. The least stable of these...
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    Lutetium (section Isotopes)
    isotopes are lutetium-174 with a half-life of 3.31 years, and lutetium-173 with a half-life of 1.37 years. All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have...
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