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by danbruc 3735 days ago
To add some visualization, you can have a look at the isotope chart [1] from Wikipedia showing the half-live times of the known isotopes to get the big picture. The distinct area towards the top is called island of stability [2] and contains long-lived but nonetheless unstable elements. A second island of stability is suspected even further up in yet uncharted territory but nobody expects additional stable elements beyond lead.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Isotopes...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability