Talk:Stable isotope
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page move was carried outRadiogenic (talk) 02:25, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Nuclear Isomers
[edit]The nuclides with the same number of protans(Z)and neutrons(N) or the same mass number (A) which differ in energy states are called NUCLEAR ISOMERS.' 117.228.219.243 (talk) 07:53, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Binding Energy chart
[edit]The chart titled "Binding energy per nucleon of common isotopes" [Binding energy curve - common isotopes.svg] has a series of points indicated by either diamonds (most of them) or squares (about 20), and for the diamonds, some appear to be not quite vertically oriented. But there is no discussion anywhere associated with this chart to explain what the distinction is which is indicated by these two markers. Does anyone have a clue what this is about? 2001:56A:F0E9:9B00:68D7:C67D:3EFE:A8D1 (talk) 22:00, 18 March 2024 (UTC)JustSomeWikiReader
Swap title and redirect: Stable nuclide -> Stable isotope
[edit]I am proposing to make Stable isotope the primary topic and stable nuclide the redirect on Wikipedia:Requested_moves/Technical_requests. There I wrote:
- These are similar terms but "stable isotope" is hundreds of times more common than "stable nuclide", See google ngrams or compare searches in Google Scholar (3 million vs 140 thousand). I marked this uncontroverisial because the Talk page has no activity for 2 years.
Dubious source
[edit]Much of this article is sourced to a now defunct commercial web site http://www.nucleonica.net and the webarchive of that site gives no information other than login required. I will remove this source as it cannot be used for WP:verification. Johnjbarton (talk) 16:24, 4 October 2026 (UTC)
Authoritative source
[edit]I claim that
- Meija, J., Coplen, T. B., Berglund, M., Brand, W. A., De Bièvre, P., Gröning, M., ... & Prohaska, T. (2016). Atomic weights of the elements 2013 (IUPAC Technical Report). Pure and Applied Chemistry, 88(3), 265-291.
is an authoritative source on the definition of "stable isotope". Our content contradicts this source and yet we cite it as if it verified the content. Something is not right. @ComplexRational Johnjbarton (talk) 04:28, 7 October 2026 (UTC)