A radiogenic nuclide is a nuclide that is produced by a process of radioactive decay. It may itself be radioactive (a radionuclide) or stable (a stable...
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radionuclides. Their decay products ('daughter' products) are called radiogenic nuclides. Natural radionuclides may be conveniently subdivided into three...
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stable argon isotope 40Ar is actually more common as a radiogenic nuclide than as a primordial nuclide, forming almost 1% of the Earth's atmosphere, which...
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Isobars are atoms (nuclides) of different chemical elements that have the same number of nucleons. Correspondingly, isobars differ in atomic number (or...
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206Pb, 207Pb, 208Pb. Lead-204 is entirely a primordial nuclide and is not a radiogenic nuclide. The three isotopes lead-206, lead-207, and lead-208 represent...
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Isotope (redirect from Nuclide notation)
afore-mentioned cosmogenic nuclides, the nucleogenic nuclides, and any radiogenic nuclides formed by ongoing decay of a primordial radioactive nuclide, such as radon...
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Island of stability (section Nuclide stability)
these elements. It is predicted to appear as an "island" in the chart of nuclides, separated from known stable and long-lived primordial radionuclides. Its...
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Decay product (redirect from Parent nuclide)
daughter product, daughter isotope, radio-daughter, or daughter nuclide) is the remaining nuclide left over from radioactive decay. Radioactive decay often...
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radiogenic nuclides that were formed from short-lived extinct radionuclides in the early Solar System. The extra presence of these stable radiogenic nuclides...
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the primary source of radiogenic heating and radioactive decay products. Together, there are a total of 286 primordial nuclides. The list then covers...
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(lowering the mass), then this will happen through beta decay, meaning the nuclide will be radioactive. The two methods for this conversion are mediated by...
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the nuclides are therefore unstable toward spontaneous fission-type processes. In practice, this mode of decay has only been observed in nuclides considerably...
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Nuclear isomer (redirect from Isomeric nuclide)
a nuclear isomer can even exceed that of the ground state of the same nuclide, as shown by 180m 73Ta as well as 186m 75Re , 192m2 77Ir , 210m 83Bi ,...
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collide to produce one or more new nuclides. Thus, a nuclear reaction must cause a transformation of at least one nuclide to another. If a nucleus interacts...
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mass differences on the order of a few electron masses. If possible, a nuclide will undergo beta decay to an adjacent isobar with lower mass. In the absence...
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radioactive nuclides. These decay-products are termed radiogenic isotopes, in order to distinguish them from the much larger group of 'non-radiogenic' isotopes...
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thus forms a practical limit to heavy element nucleon number. Heavier nuclides may be created instantaneously by physical processes, both natural (via...
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but since its activity is inversely proportional to its half-life, each nuclide in the decay chain contributes as many individual transformations as the...
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remaining number of atoms is large. The decay product is termed a radiogenic nuclide. Thermoelectricity: The decline in resistance of a Negative Temperature...
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phenomenon "artificial radioactivity", because 30 15P is a short-lived nuclide which does not exist in nature. The discovery of artificial radioactivity...
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(fast energetic electron or positron), transforming into an isobar of that nuclide. For example, beta decay of a neutron transforms it into a proton by the...
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Even and odd atomic nuclei (redirect from Odd and even nuclides)
becomes unstable and subject to certain types of nuclear decay. Unstable nuclides with a nonoptimal number of neutrons or protons decay by beta decay (including...
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neutron by some heavy nuclides (such as uranium-235) can cause the nuclide to become unstable and break into lighter nuclides and additional neutrons...
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atom of one type (called the parent nuclide) transforming to an atom of a different type (called the daughter nuclide). The energy difference of the reactants...
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liquid drop model. Halo nuclei form at the extreme edges of the table of nuclides — the neutron drip line and proton drip line — and have short half-lives...
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occurs in the most neutron-rich/proton-deficient nuclides, and also from excited states of other nuclides as in photoneutron emission and beta-delayed neutron...
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Additionally, less stable fission products are less likely to decay to stable nuclides, instead decaying to other radionuclides, which undergo further decay and...
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maximally dense. Halo nuclei form at the extreme edges of the chart of the nuclides—the neutron drip line and proton drip line—and are all unstable with short...
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Radionuclide (redirect from Radio-nuclide)
may be observed in other nuclides, adding to this list of primordial radionuclides. Secondary radionuclides are radiogenic isotopes derived from the...
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"proton" to "n" for "neutron". The largest numbers of observationally stable nuclides exist for isotones 50 (five: 86Kr, 88Sr, 89Y, 90Zr, 92Mo – noting also...
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