Questions tagged [nuclear-isomers]
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Are there any nuclear isotopes with both chiral and non chiral nuclear isomers?
I seek a nuclear isotope where one nuclear isomer is chiral and the other not. Are there any. Can there be any?
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How do nuclear physicists know if a particularly long-lived nuclear isomer actually exists? If it never seems to emit a gamma ray?
Some nuclear isomers (like tantalum-180m) have never even been observed to decay....
How do we know it is in an excited state then? That it actually absorbed some form of energy?
Can these includes ...
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Is it possible for there to exist metastable exotic atoms?
I've been quite fascinated with the invention and discovery of exotic atoms such as: positronium, and muonic hydrogen etc...
Now I know positronium has a longer than usual lifetime because it is in a ...
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Cm-244 metastable state
While searching for decay product information for Cm-244, I came across the UCSD Radionuclide Data Sheets, which lists the half life for the metastable isomer Cm-244 (34 ms), rather than the nuclear ...
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Nucleosynthesis of tantalum-isomer $^{180{\rm m1}}{\rm Ta}$
How does nucleosynthesis explain the creation of tantalum-isomer $^{180{\rm m1}}{\rm Ta}$?
Or what is the best theory to explain the existence of this?
It must be noted that the tantalum-isotope $^{...
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