Radium-226 Is a Common Isotope on Earth,but Has a Half-Life

question 51

Multiple Choice

Radium-226 is a common isotope on Earth,but has a half-life of about 1600 years.Given that Earth is some 5 billions years old,why is there any radium at all?

• A)Radium-226 is one of several self-transmutating isotopes of the elements of the periodic table and is able to replenish itself so that it is never depleted.
• B)Radium-226 and Radium-218 undergo a series of transmutation reactions of alpha and beta decay to repeatedly become one another approximately every 1600 years.
• C)Radium-226 is a "daughter" isotope and the result of the radioactive decay of uranium.
• D)Radium-226 and Astatine-218 are converted back and forth via transmutation to one another at each of their respective half-life cycles.

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