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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:

>Poutnik wrote:

>> On 07/08/2016 05:06 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:

>>>> it is releasing energy of excited kernel.
>>>
>>> Some isotopes have "meta" (excited) states that can give off
>>> a gamma to become the ground state.  Some of these isomers
>>> can also decay radioactively to something else by giving off an
>>> alpha or beta.  And sometimes the ground state can't decay
>>> the same way the isomer can.
>> 
>> Yes, that is correct.

>No, the proper description of a nuclear isomer is 'a _metastable_ state of
>an atomic nucleus (of an isotope of a chemical element)'

><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_isomer>

So why are you saying I am wrong? Because I wrote "meta" rather than
spelling out "metastable"?

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