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Is lithium-220 used in a dirty bomb?

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Lithium-220 does not exist.

Lithium is a very light element, It only occurs naturally as Lithium-6 and Lithium-7, which are both stable. All other isotopes have halflives shorter than one second, and thus would decay too fast to be usable in anything.

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