Stable nuclide
Nuclide that does not undergo radioactive decay / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stable nuclides are nuclides that are not radioactive and so (unlike radionuclides) do not spontaneously undergo radioactive decay.[1] When such nuclides are referred to in relation to specific elements, they are usually termed stable isotopes.
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The 80 elements with one or more stable isotopes comprise a total of 251 nuclides that have not been known to decay using current equipment (see list at the end of this article). Of these 80 elements, 26 have only one stable isotope; they are thus termed monoisotopic. The rest have more than one stable isotope. Tin has ten stable isotopes, the largest number of stable isotopes known for an element.