Timeline for Is Technetium's instability due to the stability of Molybdenum and Ruthenium? [duplicate]
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| May 10 at 12:11 | history | left closed in review |
Matt Hanson Michael Seifert Vincent Thacker |
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| May 10 at 11:13 | comment | added | Matt Hanson | The other elements don’t have anything to do with it, really. At most you can say that there’s somewhere downhill to go, but the strength of the barrier that you have to overcome really is about how tightly bound the nucleons are inTc atoms, not their neighbors. In other words, spontaneous radioactive decay probability really is a 1st order kinetic process that depends only on the identity of the nucleus decaying. | |
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| May 10 at 11:07 | history | edited | Q the Platypus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Further refinement of why it is not the same.
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| May 10 at 11:05 | comment | added | Q the Platypus | I had ready the linked answer. My question is about the relationship of the other elements to its stability which isn't covered in the linked question. | |
| May 10 at 11:04 | history | closed |
John Rennie PM 2Ring Vincent Thacker |
Duplicate of Why is technetium unstable? | |
| May 10 at 10:42 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 10 at 10:30 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | That's a reasonable heuristic, IMHO. Take a look at the question John linked. There's probably not much more we can say here on why technetium fails to have a stable isotope. | |
| May 10 at 10:01 | history | asked | Q the Platypus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |