Talk:Table of nuclides

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This article was nominated for deletion on February 3, 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

• Can we please split this article up into sub-articles, namely (at 70 degrees F) gas, liquid, or solid? Or by letter? Or by whether they are metals, nonmetals, or transition elements? Please? Orngjce223Orngjce223 00:29, 16 December 2005

That would be unfortunate. Theese characteristics have little to do with nuclear physics. If the data absolutely have to be split up, it should be done per atomic number like the Index to isotope pages. Zarniwoot 21:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why keep?

Call me biased, the existing "isotopes of <element>" pages (example isotopes of uranium) are far superior. Only thing they don't have is the decay data, whose haphazard formatting on this page is a shame, and which is only a short summary of the possible data anyway. Even more important, there are no references cited at all (apparently copy+pasted from Brookhaven?). Femto 12:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Just to note, at least the size would be reduced somewhat if the second, unformatted copy for each element was removed! I think some people have an active drive to keep massive lists for some reason (this is 1/3 of a megabyte) though.. see the 1/2 megabyte List of HTML decimal character references. -- Mithent 02:38, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know...

...that in the TOC, each section labelled n is the section for element n-1?? Georgia guy 22:28, 1 February 2006 (UTC)