Tellurium's Incredible Half-Life

Tellurium's Incredible Half-Life

The half-life of an isotope of Tellurium is 160 Trillion times greater than the Universe's Age (Approximately 13.8 billion). The very-long-lived radioisotope Tellurium-128 thus has the longest known half-life among all the Radionuclides of around 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

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