The Half Lives of Elements Beyond Uranium Are Too Short

question 66

Multiple Choice

The half lives of elements beyond uranium are too short for these elements to occur in natural deposits. But elements below uranium that have equally short half lives do occur in natural
Deposits. This is because they are

• A) bound with longer-living elements.
• B) the small leftover of huge abundances when the Earth formed.
• C) subdued and preserved by pressures beneath the Earth.
• D) the products of uranium decay.

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