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Isotopes of hafnium
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Natural hafnium (72Hf) consists of five observationally stable isotopes (176Hf, 177Hf, 178Hf, 179Hf, and 180Hf) and one very long-lived radioisotope, 174Hf, with a half-life of 3.8×1016 years.[2] The next most stable radioisotope is 182Hf with a half-life of 8.90 million years, an extinct radionuclide used in hafnium–tungsten dating to study the chronology of planetary differentiation.[6]
Other isotopes have been synthesized running from 153Hf to 192Hf, but none of the 33 others has a half-life over 1.87 years, and most have half-lives under five minutes. There are also at least 41 nuclear isomers, the most stable of which is 178m2Hf with a half-life of 31 years. All isotopes of hafnium are either radioactive or observationally stable, meaning that they are predicted to be radioactive but no actual decay has been observed.
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- mHf – Excited nuclear isomer.
- ( ) – Uncertainty (1σ) is given in concise form in parentheses after the corresponding last digits.
- # – Atomic mass marked #: value and uncertainty derived not from purely experimental data, but at least partly from trends from the Mass Surface (TMS).
- Bold half-life – nearly stable, half-life longer than age of universe.
- # – Values marked # are not purely derived from experimental data, but at least partly from trends of neighboring nuclides (TNN).
- Modes of decay:
EC: Electron capture IT: Isomeric transition - Bold symbol as daughter – Daughter product is stable.
- ( ) spin value – Indicates spin with weak assignment arguments.
- Theorized to also undergo β+β+ decay to 174Yb
- Used in lutetium-hafnium dating
- Believed to undergo α decay to 172Yb
- Believed to undergo α decay to 173Yb with a half-life over 1.3×1018 y.
- Believed to undergo α decay to 174Yb
- Believed to undergo α decay to 175Yb
- Believed to undergo α decay to 176Yb
- Extinct radionuclide, used in hafnium–tungsten dating[6]
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Daughter products other than hafnium
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