File talk:Island of Stability.svg

New and improved. And in vector format. Apologies for being absent for a few years, and thank you for your patience. --InvaderXan (talk) 17:15, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

While the diagram itself is nice, it seems a little wonky to me. The "Stable mountains" to the left are labeled as lead to uranium, while it actually seems to cover ytterbium-171 (70p+101n) to bismuth-209 (83p+126n). The radiactives are in the "Deformed nuclei" area, with the leftmost brown one being thorium-232 (90p+142n) and the two next are uranium-235 (92p+143n) and -238 (92p+146n). The last brown one is curium-247 (96p+151n) which is surprisingly stable with a half-life of 15.6 million years. It seems like the proton numbers are off and should be reduced by 10, the red block on the indicated "Island of stability" would then be at 108p+180n (the perspective makes it a little hard to see), while the text indicates 114p, 120p and 126p+184n to be promising candidates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.48.67.188 (talk) 05:35, 8 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Why this is not the correct place to discuss changes to the file seems odd to me. In any case, you are right, the z axis should start at 70, not 80.1812ahill (talk) 18:48, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Height of the Piles relative to their Stability
For the lower stability-colors (RoyalBlue to Orange) each next higher stability-class (or color) causes a pile to grow by one cube.

But the Orange and Red piles are of equal height, followed by the DarkRed one again grown by one cube.


 * What is the secret behind this peculiarity?

Jaybear (talk) 21:44, 10 August 2013 (UTC)