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Radioactive minerals are unstable and emit radiation at a constant rate. They also have half lives and lose energy overtime. Nonradioactive minerals are stable, and by there own are incapable of emitting energy.

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What element is nonradioactive in the chain decay of uranium?

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What eleme NT is nonradioactive decay in uranium?

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When an isotope is blank it is radioactive?

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