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Some isotopes are stable, others are unstable.

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No. They are not. They undergo nuclear decay at a specific rate for each different isotope.

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unstable isotopes have live time measured in "half lives long", stable isotopes don't have it

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That simply means that they don't decay radioactively.

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Isotopes are very stable.

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