Wednesday, October 02, 2013

[hholpkgb] Pure element

What elements are common, inert, i.e., can be maintained chemically pure under regular conditions, and have only one stable and no long lived or otherwise naturally present radioactive isotopes (monoisotopic)?  A sample of the stuff is truly pure, from both a chemical and nuclear standpoint.

Some candidates after a tiny amount of research: gold, bismuth.  (Though gold is pretty rare.)

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