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There's just no way deuterium is radioactive, unless hydrogen is radioactive too.
by marcosdumay 1mo ago
There's just no way deuterium is radioactive, unless hydrogen is radioactive too.
- gus_massa 1mo agoSome theories predict that protons decay, but the half life is like 1E31 or 1E35 years (compare to the Xe124 that has a half life of only 1E24 years). All experiments so far to measure the proton decay have failed, anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay I don't remember anything specific about deuterium, and the method that Xe124 uses is not available, and I can't imagine a razonable alternative method, so my guess is that deuterium is as stable as protons.
- gus_massa 1mo agoToo late to edit: Some conclusion, wrong number. The correct half life of Xe124 is 1E22, instead of 1E24.