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I, too, also had this questions. After SEVERAL minutes of Surfing the world wide web, I found that it is the number of neutrons that determine whether a nucleus is stable or unstable.

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The primary factor is the ratio of neutrons to protons. Too many or too few neutrons are unstable.

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the ratio protons to neutrons

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