Talk:Table of nuclides

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Something is clearly off about the current versions of the nuclide charts. The top, segmented chart shows the blue color for beta+/EC decay above the midline and the pink color for beta- decay below, whereas the bottom, combined chart reverses them. The Commons versions of the two images ([1] and [2] respectively) both show the blue on top. As if that weren't enough, all the images' description pages have legends describing pink as the beta+/EC color and blue as the beta- color, which is opposite of the legend in the actual image itself (and for that matter, the colors used in the NuDat interactive chart).

Does anyone know where specifically these charts came from? The image description pages link to http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nudat2/, but I can't find the charts as static images anywhere, only the interactive version. Were these charts created using NuDat data rather than being downloaded from the site somewhere? The users who uploaded the images here originally don't seem to be active anymore. — Xaonon (Talk) 17:50, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The legend text is cut off, so half the wording is visible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.3.28 (talk) 03:22, 8 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

For many years, they have come from the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in paper form. I am not sure about electronic form. Gah4 (talk) 07:10, 8 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

K. Guggenheimer, Journal de Physique et le Radium 5, 253 (1934) shows a nuclear chart in Figure 1, which is one year earlier than Georgio Fea's Nuovo Cimento article. In the same article he introduces the word 'isotones'. Sergefranchoo (talk) 08:55, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, in the full table there are dashed lines separating some of the nuclides between 0 and 11 (e.g. 5H and 6He, 8C and 9C). I can't find an explanation for them anywhere on the page, does anyone know what they mean? These are different than the dotted boxes surrounding nuclear isomers (e.g. 10Li has both). Diabolical Dr Ely (talk) 00:05, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Diabolical Dr Ely: Sorry for the late reply. The dashed lines are supposed to denote nuclear drip lines, which demarcate the boundary between bound (particle-stable) and unbound (those that emit a proton or neutron with very short half-lives) nuclides. However, the table is not up to date, so they may be misleading in some cases. ComplexRational (talk) 13:27, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ComplexRational: Ah okay, looks like that was added to the description or I missed it the first time. Thank you! Diabolical Dr Ely (talk) 02:48, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Based on the Wikipedia "Isotopes of Rhenium" page and my 1990-1991 CRC Handbook, I believe that the center and borders are wrong for Rhenium-186. This isotope is strange in that the isomer (186m) has a much longer half-life than the ground-state nuclide (186). Re-186m does decay to Re-186, though, which beta-decays to either Osmium- or Tungsten-186. I would change this myself, but I can't figure out how.DubleH (talk) 04:38, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

To edit the table in "Table of nuclides", go to "Template:Isotones". This information is also present in the edit section of the part "Full table". The information for Rhenium-186 and its nuclear isomer have been corrected. --Ammonium121 (talk) 20:37, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Many (many!) years ago, I had a paper chart with light shading over squares that are fission product of U-235 and Pu-239. (Different colors for each.) It was light enough not to hide the data of the squares, and also with a soft border showing (qualitatively) the yield. I don't see in a web search any charts like that. Gah4 (talk) 04:46, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since all the actual