[ RadSafe ] RadSafe Digest, Vol 578, Issue 2

[Rouse, Raymond Lawrence]

K-40 has 19p and 21n which make up 40 nucleons

Raymond 

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Re: Approximately 0.0118% of all Potassium on earth has 40 neutrons,
(K-40), and is radioactive.  
Potassium has 40 neutrons?

Should it not be that it has 40 nucleons?

S. M. Fisher
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