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Potassium (19K) has 25 known isotopes from 32K to 57K, with unconfirmed detection of 59K. Three isotopes occur naturally: stable 39K (93.3%) and 41K (6.7%), and the long-lived radioisotope 40K (0.012%). Naturally occurring radioactive 40K decays to stable 40Ar (10.72% of decays) by electron capture or positron emission (giving it the longest known positron-emitter nuclide half-life). Alternately, and most of the time (89.28%), it decays to stable 40Ca by beta decay. 40K has a half-life of 1.248×109 years. The long half life of this primordial radioisotope is caused by a highly spin-forbidden transition: 40K has a nuclear spin of 4, while both of its decay daughters are even-even isotopes with spins of 0.{{original research inline|date=May 2018}} 40K occurs in natural potassium (and thus in some commercial salt substitutes) in sufficient quantity that large bags of those substitutes can be used as a radioactive source for classroom demonstrations.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} In healthy animals and people, 40K represents the largest source of radioactivity, greater even than 14C. In a human body of 70 kg mass, about 4,400 nuclei of 40K decay per second.[1]The decay of 40K to 40Ar enables a commonly used method for dating rocks. The conventional K-Ar dating method depends on the assumption that the rocks contained no argon at the time of formation and that all the subsequent radiogenic argon (i.e., 40Ar) was quantitatively retained. Minerals are dated by measurement of the concentration of potassium and the amount of radiogenic 40Ar that has accumulated. All other potassium isotopes have half-lives under a day, most under a minute. The least stable are 33K and 34K, both with half-lives shorter than 25 nanoseconds. The half-life of 32K is unknown. Outside its use in dating, 40K has been used extensively as tracers in studies of weathering. Various potassium isotopes have also been used for nutrient cycling studies because potassium is a macronutrient required for life.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} List of isotopes{{update|date=July 2018}}
1. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~scdiroff/lds/QuantumRelativity/RadioactiveHumanBody/RadioactiveHumanBody.html | title=Radioactive Human Body |accessdate=2011-05-18}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nucleonica.net/unc.aspx |title=Universal Nuclide Chart |publisher=nucleonica |registration=yes}} 3. ^Bold for stable isotopes, bold italic for nearly-stable isotopes (half-life longer than the age of the universe) 4. ^Used in potassium-argon dating 5. ^Primordial radionuclide 6. ^{{Cite journal| volume = 126| issue = 5| pages = 1818| last = Engelkemeir| first = D. W.| last2 = Flynn| first2 = K. F.| last3 = Glendenin| first3 = L. E.| title = Positron Emission in the Decay of K40| journal = Physical Review| date = 1962| doi = 10.1103/PhysRev.126.1818|bibcode = 1962PhRv..126.1818E }} Notes
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