why is there still radioactive material on earth? Why hasn’t it all decayed?
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The radioactive material on earth has a half life long enough for it to have significant quantities left, or comes from the decay of things that do (eg. radon is mostly produced from natural uranium decay).
There were other radioactive elements on Earth in the past in all likelihood, but they decayed more or less entirely before we were there to observe them.
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