Timeline for What happens to a radioactive material's atom when it disintegrates?
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| Sep 28, 2018 at 12:06 | vote | accept | Nobody recognizeable | ||
| Sep 25, 2018 at 17:22 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25, 2018 at 17:14 | answer | added | sammy gerbil | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 25, 2018 at 17:06 | answer | added | Farcher | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 25, 2018 at 16:26 | comment | added | user205719 | No, it ends after an uncertain amount of time. We have no theory that predicts when any given nucleus will decay. We can only model it (as Sandejo's answer says) as a stochastic process. | |
| Sep 25, 2018 at 15:55 | answer | added | Sandejo | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 25, 2018 at 15:54 | comment | added | Nobody recognizeable | @JonCuster so the radioactive decay ends after certain amount of time. | |
| Sep 25, 2018 at 15:16 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Each decaying nucleus results in a final nucleus (or nuclei in the case of fission). Nuclei remain, they just aren't the nucleus you started with. | |
| Sep 25, 2018 at 15:07 | comment | added | Nobody recognizeable | @JonCuster the radioactive decay is a first order reaction which shouldn't end . | |
| Sep 25, 2018 at 14:55 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Look at the decay process. See what it decays into. That is what is left (modulo any continued decay such as the uranium series that finally ends in lead). | |
| Sep 25, 2018 at 14:52 | history | asked | Nobody recognizeable | CC BY-SA 4.0 |