potassium-40

English

Noun

potassium-40 (uncountable)

  1. (physics) A naturally-occurring radioactive isotope of potassium, 4019K, having 19 protons and 21 neutrons, and a half-life of 1.3 billion years; it is the chief source of natural radioactivity in living tissue
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