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Decay Simulator: Iridium-166

General data

Element nameIridium
Chemical symbolIr
Atomic number Z77
Isotope name (symbol)Iridium-166 (Ir-166)
Neutron number N89
Mass number A=Z+N166

Interactive radioactive decay simulation of Iridium-166: atom-by-atom decay, full decay chain, charts of nuclei count and activity.

Half-life11.7 ms

Isotope: Iridium-166

Radioactive decay series

Rare branches (below 0.01%)

Rare branches are transformations that occur in fewer than 0.01% of decays, e.g. double beta decay or cluster emission. The nuclides they produce are practically absent from a sample, so they are hidden by default to keep the main path clear. In this series: branches - 1, nuclides - 9.

Showing 60 of 79 nuclides in the series.

How to read the simulation

Grid: each pixel is one atom of the starting isotope. When an atom decays, the pixel takes the colour of the decay product - in decay series mode the product can decay further. The moment each atom decays is random, but the probability follows from the half-life, so after one T½ about half of the atoms remain, after two - about a quarter.

Chart N(t): what percentage of the sample atoms each nuclide makes up at a given moment. The line of the starting isotope falls (by half after each T½), the lines of stable products rise, and those of short-lived ones first rise, then fall.

Chart A(t): activity, i.e. the number of decays per second (becquerel, Bq). It depends on the number of atoms and on how fast they decay: for the same number of atoms, the shorter the T½, the higher the activity.

Simulation time runs faster (or slower) than real time - the time scale slider sets the multiplier. This way you can watch the decay of isotopes that live from fractions of a second to billions of years.

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