Physics
The atomic nucleus: Nuclear stability
The 3000 or so known unstable nuclides have half-lives from fractions of a second to more than the age of the universe – and theory predicts thousands more
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The 3000 or so known unstable nuclides have half-lives from fractions of a second to more than the age of the universe – and theory predicts thousands more
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