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swampwiz
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I was looking at this neat graph of all the isotopes and which ones are stable and how they decay:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...otopes_en.svg/715px-Table_isotopes_en.svg.png
The black squares represent stable isotopes, and columns that have no such black squares have no stable isotopes. OK, I see Technetium & Prometheum, but I have also noticed such a column for Tungsten. The wiki article on Tungsten isotopes says that alpha decay for some of these is "theoretical". What is this all about?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...otopes_en.svg/715px-Table_isotopes_en.svg.png
The black squares represent stable isotopes, and columns that have no such black squares have no stable isotopes. OK, I see Technetium & Prometheum, but I have also noticed such a column for Tungsten. The wiki article on Tungsten isotopes says that alpha decay for some of these is "theoretical". What is this all about?