Re: Fusion Power

From: Peter Ruest (pruest@pop.mysunrise.ch)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 00:58:35 EDT

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    Iain Strachan wrote:
    > ...
    > > Li^7 is extremely unstable, with a half-life of maybe 10^-12
    > > seconds. *
    > >
    >
    > I'm not sure this is correct? On the following web-page:
    >
    > http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Li/isot.html
    >
    > the naturally occurring isotopes of Lithium are listed. Li^6 accounts for
    > 7.59% of naturally occurring Lithium, and Li^7 for the remaining 92.41%
    > ...

    The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 66th ed.(CRC Press, Boca Raton,
    FL, 1985-1986, page B-234) lists Li-5, Li-6 (7.5% abundance), and Li-7
    (92.5% abund.) as stable, and Li-8 (half-life 0.844 s beta, alpha) and
    Li-9 (0.178 s beta, beta, n2alpha) as unstable. It also lists decay
    energies, particle energies and some other data for these isotopes.

    Peter 

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