An article about half-lives describes a parent isotope. What is a parent isotope?

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Lorenzo Wood

13 February, 08:03

An article about half-lives describes a parent isotope. What is a parent isotope?

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Joshua Coffey · Answer 1

A parent isotope plays an important role in the decay chain process. The parent isotope is the one who undergoes the decay process in the nuclear reaction in order to form its daughter isotope. The daughter isotope may decay on its own and may have its own daughter isotope as well.