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What elements are radioactive?

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Answerelements with a nonstable isotope or at least one naturally occurring isotope that is radioactive. AnswerAll elements have radioactive isotopes.
There are a lot of radioactive elements:

Technetium, Promethium, Polonium, Astatine, Radon, Francium...

Here is the whole list: http://periodictable.com/Elements/Radioactive

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All the elements from atomic number 84 [Polonium (Po)]and onwards are radioactive. Also, elements with atomic numbers 43 and 61 (Technetium and Promethium) are radioactive. If an element is radioactive, it means it's nucleus is likely to decay into another element.

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