I've seen a different nuclide map (I suppose the difference is whether elements with astronomical half-lives are considered stable or radioactive) where an isotope has the complementary property: it is unstable whereas its eight neighbours are stable.
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 12:32 AM From: "Bill Gosper" <billgosper@gmail.com> To: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [math-fun] nuclide map
Another selenium oddity: Both Se74 and Se82 are stable (and uncommon), but are unstable under the addition or removal of a proton, neutron, or both, or swap. (Eight possibilities apiece) There are *three* isotopes of erbium with this property. --rwg
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
Oddity: Both the Brookhaven tables list the prevalent isotope Se80 as STABLE, but its box, instead of black, is "beta decay magenta" with a decay mode of 2β- . Japan Atomic Energy Agency just says >.5 Gy. Wikipedia flatly says stable, which is interesting because they list no stable isotopes of tungsten, but ascribe quintillion year half-lives to five of them.
What gives?
With the Brookhaven tables.
--rwg Isn't it odd of JAEA to lump U235 with C12, stabilitywise? Hmm, my dandruff shampoo may leave me with a radiation deficiency.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Ed! I had rejected that because it wasn't an actual image, lacked Z labeling, but mostly because I hadn't thought to click on Decay Mode to override the defaulted Half Life, which is so colored as to make it almost impossible to notice the instability of technetium. I subsequently found http://elementdata.net/chart_of_the_nuclides.jpg , but Mike Stay's https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/NuclideMap.PNG is exactly the ticket. Thanks, Mike! --Bill And here I thought SF stood for San Francisco.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Edward Fredkin <ed@fredkin.com> wrote:
Yes!
Look at http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/help/index.jsp
Ed
From: Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> Reply-To: "billgosper@gmail.com" <billgosper@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 11:01 AM To: "math-fun@mailman.xmission.com" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: nuclide map
Does anybody know where to find a full sized version of
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/NuclideMap_stitched_smal... ? Even though 4000 pixels wide, it's too small to read. (Will settle for unstitched.) --rwg
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