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Isotopes of tungsten
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Naturally occurring tungsten (74W) consists of five isotopes. Four are considered stable (182W, 183W, 184W, and 186W) and one is slightly radioactive, 180W, with an extremely long half-life of (1.59±0.05)×1018 years.[1] This results in about two alpha decays of 180W per gram of natural tungsten per year, so for most practical purposes, 180W can be considered stable. The other naturally occurring isotopes are also capable of alpha decay and so only observationally stable.
Artificial radioisotopes of tungsten have been observed from 156W to 197W, the most stable of which are 181W with a half-life of 120.96 days, 185W with a half-life of 75.1 days, 188W with a half-life of 69.77 days and 178W with a half-life of 21.6 days. All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives less than one day, and most of these less than 8 minutes. The most stable known meta state is 179m1W with half-life 6.40 minutes.
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- mW – 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:
α: Alpha decay β+: Positron emission EC: Electron capture β−: Beta decay IT: Isomeric transition - Bold italics symbol as daughter – Daughter product is nearly stable.
- Bold symbol as daughter – Daughter product is stable.
- ( ) spin value – Indicates spin with weak assignment arguments.
- Believed to undergo α decay to 178Hf with a half-life over 7.7×1021 y
- Believed to undergo α decay to 179Hf with a half-life over 6.70×1020 y
- Believed to undergo α decay to 180Hf with a half-life over 8.9×1021 y
- Believed to undergo α decay to 182Hf with a half-life over 8.2×1021 y, or β−β− decay to 186Os with a half-life over 4.1×1018 y
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Daughter products other than tungsten
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