Nucleonics Matrix

Nuclear Stability

By Alain Lareau

Chapter 1 Page 5

Oxygen-16 the third most plentiful nuclide


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n = p-2 n = p-1 n = p n = p+1 n = p+2
  H 001
99.985%

Stable
  n  
    H 002
0.015%

Stable
   
  He 003
0.000137%

Stable
  H 003

12.33 yr
 
Li 004

  He 004
99.999863%

Stable
  H 004


All Isobars to six
H-1


H-2


He-3


H-3


Li-4


He-4


H-4


Li-5


He-5


Be-6


Li-6


He-6


Above and at left you find four varient charts in HTML format. Nuclide identities displayed in this fashion comprise The Incremental Table of Atomic Isobars.



-4 -3 -2 -1 n=p +1 +2 +3 +4
H-1
H-2
He-3 H-3
Li-4 He-4 H-4
Li-5 He-5
Be-6 Li-6 He-6
B-7 Be-7 Li-7 He-7
C-8 B-8 Be-8 Li-8 He-8
xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx
Cube

Octahedral Equation

Icosahedral Equation

Our discussion left off examining the isobar-8 so we pick up on isobar-9 which does have a stable nuclide.


n =
p-2 p-1p p+1p+2
  H 1   n  
   H 2   
  He 3   H 3  
   He 4   
       
   Li 6   
     Li 7  
       
     Be 9  
   B 10   
     B 11  
   C 12   
     C 13  
   N 14   
     N 15  
   O 16   
We still have the issue of the cube at hand but the rolly/floppy trait is mitagated, again by the addition of a central nucleon as was the case with isobar-7. Hence Be-9 is the only stable isotope of Beryllium.
All this makes much sence in terms of both close packing and spherical division. If I were to have you guess which isotope of Boron is the most common B-10 or B-11 what information would you use to guide your choice.

Observe to your left, the nuclides Li-7, Be-9, and B-11 are marked off with orange, this denotes them as
Most Common Isotope.
The yellow is used to mark off the nuclides as SUPER Stable for the six most abundant elements. I consider these six isobars as durable beyond stable and favored by nature. The forth most plentiful element is Neon, we will add that now. The fifth and sixth are already on the the chart, Carbon and Nitrogen. we will observe what paterns arise and begin our discusion anew.


n =
p-2 p-1p p+1p+2
  H 1   n  
   H 2   
  He 3   H 3  
   He 4   
       
   Li 6   
  Be 7   Li 7  
       
     Be 9  
   B 10   Be 10
     B 11  
   C 12   
     C 13  
   N 14   C 14
     N 15  
   O 16   
     O 17  
      O 18
     F 19  
   Ne 20   
After


My interest in the geometry of the atomic nucleus first developed after reading an article by Laurence Hecht. I adopted the viewpoint that the insinuation of the article was a worthwhile line of inquiry. The idea of using the Platonic solids to make sense of atomic ontology intrigued me. The Moon-Hecht model sets protons at the vertices of successive frames corresponding to Platonic solids. Elements that matched completed proton shells were recognized as abundant elements such as iron, silicon and oxygen as I knew from geological studies to be main constituents of the earth's crust.

Somewhere I ran across a list of the most common elements in the cosmos. I then learned that neon, fourth on the list, was more plentiful than both iron and silicon and is abundant in interstellar space. I knew something was amiss. The Moon-Hecht model does not mark off neon with a completed proton shell and gives no explanation for abundant neon. This idea sat still for a few years!

Stars produce helium from hydrogen and if they have enough mass they begin to burn helium to heavier elements though what is called the C-N-O process. What element would a star produce if it were massive enough to burn oxygen? Yes neon! This nagged at me so I discarded the proton at the vertex notion and played around with the idea of a system of shells but discounted any distinction between protons and neutrons and with each of the eleven most common elements of the cosmos the atomic weight values were found to be additions of platonic numbers ie. 4, 6, 8, 12, and 20. The idea sat for a few more years as the notion of "stability by degree had not fully come upon me.


Might it be easy to see why a geologist like myself would find
the Moon-Hecht model interesting.
Looking at chart from the Moon-Hecht model you will see nothing special about neon here,
thats the fly in the ointment. To begin with I am told that there is a set of elements that nature favors in occurrence in the universe. Let us suspend our notions of how that distribution came to be, for a time, so as not to restrict our thinking. This list is in order of abundance, Nitrogen and Carbon seem to be a close tie,
I myself beleive Carbon to be more abundant.

  • Hydrogen
  • Helium
  • Oxygen
  • Neon
  • Nitrogen
  • Carbon
  • Silicon
  • Magnesium
  • Iron
  • Sulfur
  • Argon
  • Aluminium
The chart crust displays the most abundant elements of the earth's crust in the left column, in the right column the elements are reoganized in order of atomic number.
see crust

``White Paper'' on the US X-Ray Astronomy Program

Next
several benchmarks


to twenty.




n = p-3 n = p-2 n = p-1 n = p n = p+1 n = p+2 n = p+3 n = p+4
    H 001
99.985%

Stable
         
      H 002
0.015%

Stable
       
    He 003
0.000137%

Stable
  H 003

12.33 yr
     
  Li 004

  He 004
99.999863%

Stable
  H 004
   
 
 
 
  Li 005
  He 005
     
  Be 006
  Li 006
7.5%

Stable
  He 006
   
B 007
  Be 007   Li 007
92.5%

Stable
  He 007

 
 
 
 
B 008

  Be 008
  Li 008
  He 008
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The above table is useful when undertaking a study of stellar nucleosynthesis regarding the non-popularity of the Isobars 5 and 8, however its placement here is to provide an example of how data can be displayed different than that of the Segre Chart.

This done to facilitate investigation on different levels.
The Moon-Hecht Model at 21st. Century Science and Technology magazine should be viewed at some point. I post it.
Use this link Isobars Chapter One to persue the thread of the Essay on Nuclear Stability.


Charts all man made isotopes.

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The twelve most abundant elements in order of abundance,
with atomic #(Z), atomic weight(A) of most common isotope,
neutron #(N)in most common isotope,
and reference platonic solids
*
Z Element A N 4 6 8 12 20
1 Hydrogen 1 0          
2 Helium 4 2          
8 Oxygen 16 8          
10 Neon 20 10          
6 Carbon 12 6          
7 Nitrogen 14 7          
14 Silicon 28 14          
12 Magnesium 24 12          
26 Iron 56 30          
16 Sulfur 32 16          
18 Argon 40 22          
13 Aluminium 27 14          
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Essay on Nuclear Stability


Primer not to be answered sufficienpresent day so here I elaborate concplain more coherent way
  • Hydrogen
  • Helium
  • Oxygen
  • Neon
  • Nitrogen
  • Carbon
  • Silicon
  • Magnesium
  • Iron
  • Sulfur
  • Argon
  • Aluminium
ath stable nuclei but let us note that the situation of even-even is favored by nature, so I give you the first benchmark pairing and the accompanying exception Hydrogen.