Which can take a while, depending on the isotope.
In the case of Uranium, you might as well wait until the sun dies... :lol: The half life is somewhere about 4.5 billion years, I think.
Which can take a while, depending on the isotope.
In the case of Uranium, you might as well wait until the sun dies... :lol: The half life is somewhere about 4.5 billion years, I think.
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1. Never. Thermodynamics, you can never get back to the start. But you can sure return an ionized atom back to its original energy level.
2. Decay to a stable element. Which can take a while, depending on the isotope.
3. No. Bombarding an atom with W+ bosons could maybe reduce the chance of beta decay, but you would cause new interactions that way, because the other particles have a bigger cross section.
:leaving:In the case of Uranium, you might as well wait until the sun dies... :lol: The half life is somewhere about 4.5 billion years, I think.
Well, some isotopes also decay in nanoseconds. :lol: But U-235 decays at 700 million years halflife and U-238 at about 4.5 billion years. U-236 decays in 23 million years and U-234 decays in 25000 years.
U-96 decays in about 5 years.
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