• Helium (2He) (standard atomic weight: 4.002602(2)) has nine known isotopes, but only helium-3 (3He) and helium-4 (4He) are stable. All radioisotopes are...
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    Helium-3 (3He see also helion) is a light, stable isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. (In contrast, the most common isotope, helium-4...
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    which isotope of helium is present: the common isotope helium-4 or the rare isotope helium-3. These are the only two stable isotopes of helium. See the...
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    Helium-4 (4 He ) is a stable isotope of the element helium. It is by far the more abundant of the two naturally occurring isotopes of helium, making up...
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    produce exotic helium isotopes, which rapidly decay into other substances. The shortest-lived heavy helium isotope is the unbound helium-10 with a half-life...
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  • groundwater. USGS Tritium/Helium-3 Dating Hydrologic Isotope Tracers - Helium Cosmogenic isotopes Environmental isotopes Geochemistry Isotopic signature Radiometric...
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    universe's helium (as isotope helium-4 (4He)), along with small fractions of the hydrogen isotope deuterium (2H or D), the helium isotope helium-3 (3He)...
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    Noble gas (redirect from Helium family (p6))
    decay. Radon has no stable isotopes; its longest-lived isotope, 222Rn, has a half-life of 3.8 days and decays to form helium and polonium, which ultimately...
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    stable isotope, the largest number of stable isotopes observed for any element is ten (for the element tin). No element has nine or eight stable isotopes. Five...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-851997-3. Morrison, P.; Pine, J. (1955). "Radiogenic Origin of the Helium Isotopes in Rock". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 62 (3): 71–92...
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  • There are three known stable isotopes of oxygen (8O): 16 O , 17 O , and 18 O . Radioactive isotopes ranging from 11 O to 28 O have also been characterized...
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    naturally occurring isotopes: 1H, 2H, and 3H. 1H and 2H are stable, while 3H has a half-life of 12.32(2) years. Heavier isotopes also exist; all are synthetic...
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  • two stable isotopes, lithium-6 (6Li) and lithium-7 (7Li), with the latter being far more abundant on Earth. Both of the natural isotopes have an unexpectedly...
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    All other isotopes have half-lives shorter than 17.35 ms. Those isotopes with mass below 10 decay into helium (via short-lived isotopes of beryllium...
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    A helium atom is an atom of the chemical element helium. Helium is composed of two electrons bound by the electromagnetic force to a nucleus containing...
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    the lower critical solution temperature. A mixture of two helium isotopes (helium-3 and helium-4) in a certain range of temperatures and concentrations...
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    under the heading isotope geochemistry. Some naturally occurring isotopes are entirely radiogenic, but all those are radioactive isotopes, with half-lives...
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  • five helium-4 nuclei, in the so-called alpha process of exploding type II supernovas (see silicon burning). Other than 35S, the radioactive isotopes of...
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    Neon (section Isotopes)
    of isotopes of stable atoms. Thomson's device was a crude version of the instrument we now term a mass spectrometer. Neon has three stable isotopes: 20Ne...
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    their isotopes. Of the first 82 elements in the periodic table, 80 have isotopes considered to be stable. Overall, there are 251 known stable isotopes in...
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    lowest reaches sediment-filled. Analysis of the water found carbon and helium isotopes which implied that the cave has been formed by acidic waters, heated...
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    Class, Cornelia; Goldstein, Steven L. (August 2005). "Evolution of helium isotopes in the Earth's mantle". Nature. 436 (7054): 1107–1112. Bibcode:2005Natur...
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  • radioactive isotopes have half-lives that are less than 33 seconds, and the majority of these have half-lives that are less than half a second. The isotopes of...
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  • Superfluid helium-4 (helium II or He-II) is the superfluid form of helium-4, an isotope of the element helium. A superfluid is a state of matter in which...
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  • Tolstikhin; I.L. Kamensky; L.E. Yakovlev; B. Marty; A.L. Cheshko (2000). "Helium isotopes, tectonics and heat flow in the Northern Caucasus". Geochimica et Cosmochimica...
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    they are usually called that element's stable isotopes. The 80 elements with one or more stable isotopes comprise a total of 251 nuclides that have not...
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  • the helium-3 isotope, consisting of two protons and one neutron. The nucleus of the other (and far more common) stable isotope of helium, helium-4, consisting...
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    Hydrogen (H) through Nickel (Ni) or of electrons and the isotopes of Hydrogen (H) and Helium (He) and light nuclei. A selection-priority scheme was included...
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  • at least one stable isotope (except for technetium, element 43 and promethium, element 61, which have no stable isotopes). Isotopes considered stable are...
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    Atomic mass (redirect from Isotopic mass)
    it reaches a local minimum at helium-4. Isotopes of lithium, beryllium, and boron are less strongly bound than helium, as shown by their increasing mass-to-mass...
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