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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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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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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exotic helium isotopes, which rapidly decay into other substances. The shortest-lived heavy helium isotope is the unbound helium-10 with a half-life of 2.6(4)×10−22 s...
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analysis of groundwater. USGS Tritium/Helium-3 Dating Hydrologic Isotope Tracers - Helium Cosmogenic isotopes Environmental isotopes Geochemistry Isotopic signature...
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Superfluidity (category Liquid helium)
occurs in two isotopes of helium (helium-3 and helium-4) when they are liquefied by cooling to cryogenic temperatures. It is also a property of various other...
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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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Big Bang nucleosynthesis (redirect from Primordial helium abundance)
radioactive isotopes were produced: the heavy hydrogen isotope tritium (3H or T) and the beryllium isotope beryllium-7 (7Be). These unstable isotopes later...
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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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is the kinetic isotope effect: due to their larger masses, heavier isotopes tend to react somewhat more slowly than lighter isotopes of the same element...
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half-lives shorter than 17.35 ms. Those isotopes with mass below 10 decay into helium (via short-lived isotopes of beryllium for 7 B and 9 B ) while those...
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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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composed of 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...
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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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rise to the idea of the lower critical solution temperature. A mixture of two helium isotopes (helium-3 and helium-4) in a certain range of temperatures and...
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kinds of stars Isotopes of helium Helium-3 Helium-4 Helium (band), American rock band Helium (Pram album), 1994 Helium (H3llb3nt album), 1998 Helium (Homeshake...
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cooling of helium-4 (the more common isotope of helium), a 1-K pot liquefies a small amount of helium-3 in a small vessel called a helium-3 pot. Evaporative...
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Dilution refrigerator (section Theory of operation)
region. The cooling power is provided by the heat of mixing of the helium-3 and helium-4 isotopes. The dilution refrigerator was first proposed by Heinz...
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Decay chain (redirect from Parent isotope)
often after a series of decays, a stable isotope is reached: there are 251 stable isotopes in the universe. In stable isotopes, light elements typically...
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Helion (chemistry) (redirect from Helium-3 nucleus)
of 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...
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evaporative cooling. At atmospheric pressure, 4He (the more abundant isotope of helium) liquefies at 4.2 K. By employing evaporative cooling, temperatures...
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Radiogenic nuclide (redirect from Radiogenic isotopes)
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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Fusion rocket (redirect from Helium-3 propulsion)
aneutronic fusion). Helium-3 propulsion would use the fusion of helium-3 atoms as a power source. Helium-3, an isotope of helium with two protons and...
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Alpha particle (redirect from Helium nucleus)
P.; Pine, J. (1955). "Radiogenic Origin of the Helium Isotopes in Rock". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 62 (3): 71–92. Bibcode:1955NYASA...
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Nuclear binding energy (section Physics of nuclei)
nuclear interactions between two hydrogen isotopes and between hydrogen and helium-3 are fusion, as the product of these interactions include a heavier nucleus...
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Sulfur (16S) has 23 known isotopes with mass numbers ranging from 27 to 49, four of which are stable: 32S (95.02%), 33S (0.75%), 34S (4.21%), and 36S...
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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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Neon (redirect from History of neon)
on Isotopes Periodic Table—Neon at the U.S. Geological Survey, by Eric Caldwell, posted January 2004, retrieved 10 February 2011 "Neon: Isotopes". Softciências...
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speed of combustion with any oxygen present. Any inert gas such as helium, neon, or argon will serve as a buffer gas. A buffer gas usually consists of atomically...
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