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Well there's interesting then.
Apparently someone's nicked some Iridium 192 in eyerack.
Investigating said Iridium 192 leads to the wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_iridium
which informs us that Ir 192 has a half life of 73 days.
But, more interesting is the nuclear isomer page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_isomer
which describes excited states in nuclei.
There's one in Tantalum which has a half life of 10^15 years, rather longer than the age of the universe.
But Hafnium looks promising:
You get a fair old bang for your gm of Hafnium.Another reasonably stable nuclear isomer (with a half-life of 31 years) is 178m2
72Hf, which has the highest excitation energy of any comparably long-lived isomer.
One gram of pure 178m2Hf contains approximately 1.33 gigajoules of energy, the equivalent of exploding about 315 kg (694 lb) of TNT.
Further, in the natural decay of 178m2Hf, the energy is released as gamma rays with a total energy of 2.45 MeV.Tags: None
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