Examples of nuclide in the following topics:
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- After one half-life has elapsed, one half of the atoms of the nuclide in question will have decayed into a "daughter" nuclide, or decay product.
- In many cases, the daughter nuclide is radioactive, resulting in a decay chain.
- This chain eventually ends with the formation of a stable, nonradioactive daughter nuclide.
- Therefore, in any material containing a radioactive nuclide, the proportion of the original nuclide to its decay products changes in a predictable way as the original nuclide decays over time.
- Each parent nuclide spontaneously decays into a daughter nuclide (the decay product) via an α decay or a β decay.
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- For a large number of atoms, the decay rate for the collection as a whole can be computed from the measured decay constants of the nuclides, or, equivalently, from the half-lives.
- Half-lives vary widely; the half-life of 209Bi is 1019 years, while unstable nuclides can have half-lives that have been measured as short as 10−23 seconds.
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- The law of radioactive decay describes the statistical behavior of a large number of nuclides, rather than individual ones.
- In the following relation, the number of nuclides or nuclide population, N, is of course a natural number.
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- Other interactive periodic tables provide comprehensive data for each element, including nuclide properties, environmental and health factors, presentation in different languages and much more.