Talk:Isotopes of oxygen

Heaviest isotope
According to http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070913170108.htm, the heaviest possible oxygen isotope is O-24. Since this is more up-to-date than the given references here, I think we should delete all higher isotopes from the table. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 16:53, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 14:19, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Heavier oxygen isotopes exist but for too brief a time to undergo beta decay. O-25, O-26, O-27 and O-28 have been discovered see Nubase 2003 at the AMDC website or [http://10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2003.11.001 Nuc. Phys. A 729, 3 (2003)] for the discovery references. Darian2 (talk) 05:14, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Shortened footnote format
I converted the shortened footnotes in this article to a much simpler format using sfn. If you object to this in any way and want me to revert them, I'd be happy to do so. Just contact me on my talk page.

The old version made an unnecessary call to wikicite and was more complicated to read in edit-mode. CharlesGillingham (talk) 18:08, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Factual error
There's a nonsense statement in the first paragraph. It is written there that "The shortest-lived is 12O with a half-life of 0.4 MeV.". Time cannot be measured using this unit I'm afraid. Please fix it. Regards, 83.6.45.47 (talk) 22:06, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Oxygen 13
"Oxygen-13 is an unstable isotope of oxygen to provide any nutrients outside of the zone." What does this mean? Klausok (talk) 11:27, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Number of isotopes
Is there a reason that isotopes O-25 through O-28 are not included in the table? The following statement is confusing: "17 radioactive isotopes have also been characterized, with mass numbers from 12O to 24O, all short-lived, with the longest-lived being 15O with a half-life of 122.24 seconds." The seventeen isotopes refers to O-12 through O-28, but the table only references O-12 through O-24. I shouldn't have to go to the talk pages to find why there is a discrepancy. Jdlawlis (talk) 16:26, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Isotopes of oxygen. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080923135135/http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/amdc/nubase/Nubase2003.pdf to http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/amdc/nubase/Nubase2003.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080923135135/http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/amdc/nubase/Nubase2003.pdf to http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/amdc/nubase/Nubase2003.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 14:17, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Isotopes of oxygen. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090813220235/http://ie.lbl.gov/toi/nuclide.asp?iZA=80024 to http://ie.lbl.gov/toi/nuclide.asp?iZA=80024
 * Added archive https://archive.is/20130115012317/http://www.petnm.unimelb.edu.au/pet/detail/radionuc.html to http://www.petnm.unimelb.edu.au/pet/detail/radionuc.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 14:53, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

CNO cycle
This article doesn’t mention O|15O's role in the CNO cycle. – Laundry Pizza 03  ( d c&#x0304; ) 19:05, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

25-28O
If 25O to 28O have been observed, then why aren’t they on the list? Being beyond the neutron drip line, as far as I know, is not a good reason. – Laundry Pizza 03  ( d c&#x0304; ) 02:03, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Oxygen-11
Apparently discovered a few weeks ago: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.122501 Reyk YO! 17:54, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Is there data for oxygen 11 yet
If yes add data right now and Merry Christmas 24.115.255.37 (talk) 17:44, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you; it turns out there is data in NUBASE2020. I updated the table accordingly. ComplexRational (talk) 22:49, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Oxygen-15 natural occurrence
Shouldn't oxygen-15 be listed as "trace" rather than "synthetic ", since traces are produced by lightning. 2603:6000:8740:54B1:5C62:6332:F746:B663 (talk) 02:16, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Can you provide the relevant source that show the existence of 15O isotope during the storm? I found that rather than produced by lightning, this isotope occurs briefly in the cold nucleo-synthesis cycle in various stars, much similar to the way 8Be isotope present in triple alpha process of stars (see CNO-I) 2402:800:63AC:B4A6:A93C:AC98:8D6E:845C (talk) 06:04, 23 June 2023 (UTC)


 * See ) Lightning leaves behind a radioactive cloud ) and ( wikipedia/ isotopes of nitrogen) with the nitrogen-13 section. Also, scroll down to oxygen-15 on this page. 2603:6000:8740:54B1:FC27:25E0:460:FB3C (talk) 20:26, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Oxygen-28
Here is an article from Science News: [https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oxygen-28-instability-surprise-physics Scientists finally detected oxygen-28. Its instability surprised them]. Rjluna2 (talk) 16:12, 29 October 2023 (UTC)