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Arsenic has 33 known isotopes and at least 10 isomers. Only one of these isotopes, As, is stable; as such, it is considered a monoisotopic element. The longest-lived radioisotope is As with a half-life of 80 days. Arsenic has been proposed as a "salting" material for nuclear weapons. A jacket of As, irradiated by the intense highenergy neutron flux from an exploding thermonuclear weapon, would transmute into the radioactive isotope As with a half-life of 1.0778 days and produce approximately 1.13 MeV gamma radiation, significantly increasing the radioactivity of the weapon's fallout for several hours. Such a weapon is not known to have ever been built, tested, or used.

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