Recent content by mrhagerty

Thank you all for your timely replies. Your explanations clear up the confusion.

I'm new here and have a very basic question that I haven't been able to see answered here or elsewhere, so forgive the banality if this seems trivial. I understand Rubidium has a "normal" atomic weight of 85 and often exists as its isotope Rb87. When Rb87 decays, why doesn't it decay to...