Astatine has many isotopes, each with its own half life. The longest in my list is At209 at 8.1 hours, and At215 is listed at 0.1 ms. The shortest are just listed as 'short' reflecting the small quantities.
The time it takes for half the atoms in a sample of a radioactive element to decay is called the half life.
I believe that term would be 'half-life'
A "Half-Life" is not half of a life, it is half of the life, then half of that life, and then half of THAT life, and so on and so on. For example: Rock has a half life of 100 ---> 50 ---> 25 ---> 12.5 ---> 6.25 ---> and so on. You just keep dividing the life it has, by 2. Another Example: If you take a dissolving vitamin, and weigh it (20g), and put it in water for 1 minute, it should dissolve into ALMOST half of its original weight, into 10g. Scientists often use the method of "Half-Life" to measure the age of a rock or rock formation. Sources: Am a student in science class
The length of time depends on the element and isotope, but the point at which half of the sample has decayed is known as the half-life.
Uranium has the longest half-life element
Longest acting insulins iclude insulin glargine and insulin ultralente
I believe it is selenium 82 with a half life of 1.3*10 to the 20 years or 130 quintillion years!
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The longest-lived isotope currently known is 289Fl with a half-life of ~2.6 s, although there is evidence for a nuclear isomer, 289bFl, with a half-life of ~66 s, that would be one of the longest-lived nuclei in the super-heavy element region.
The most important isotope - Es-253, has a half life of 20,47 days.The longest half life is for the isotope Es-252: 471,7 days.But einsteinium has 19 isotopes and 3 isomers, each with a different half life.
Tungsten 184 has a half life of nearly 9 sextillion years - which is several trillion times the age of the universe.
Ununquadium is still being explored. There are 5 confirmed isotopes, and what looks looks two isomers. The longest half-life appears to be 114289Uuq at 2.6 seconds, and the longest isomer appears to be 114289mUuq at 1.2 minutes.
the longest-lived isotope has lived just 61 ms.
Rutherfordium has 104 protons; the isotope with the longest half-life (263Rf) has 159 neutrons.
The longest half life for a seaborgium isotope is a little more than 2 minutes.
Rutherfordium has 104 protons; the isotope with the longest half-life (263Rf) has 159 neutrons.