Isotopes of samarium
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Naturally occurring samarium (62Sm) is composed of five stable isotopes, 144Sm, 149Sm, 150Sm, 152Sm and 154Sm, and two extremely long-lived radioisotopes, 147Sm and 148Sm, with 152Sm being the most abundant. 146Sm is also fairly long-lived, but is not long-lived enough to have survived in significant quantities from the formation of the Solar System on Earth, although it remains useful in radiometric dating in the Solar System as an extinct radionuclide. It is the longest-lived nuclide that has not yet been confirmed to be primordial. Its instability is due to having 84 neutrons, and so it may emit an alpha particle to form neodymium-142 with 82 neutrons.
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