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Bismuth No Longer the Heaviest Stable Element

Science · Science · 2003-05-23 11:00 · posted by michael · from the first-slashdot-story-to-use-the-word-bismuth dept. · 78 comments

forii writes "Bismuth-209 was commonly thought to be the heaviest stable element. But now Physicists have discovered that Bi-209 actually is unstable and decays with a halflife of 2*10^19 years. This means that the average 8oz (237ml) bottle of Pepto-Bismol contains one decay event every 36 hours or so."