If radioactive elements decay over time, and after turning into other radioactive elements one day turn into a stable element (e.g. Uranium -> Radium -> Radon -> Polonium -> Lead): Does this mean one day there will be no radioactive elements left on earth?
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Not all of them. carbon 14 is created by radiation from the Sun. Basically it is beta decay in reverse, turning N-14 into C14. Without this replenishment we would have run out of C14 long ago.
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