• TonyTonyChopper
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    2 months ago

    I was reading about some terribly unholy chemistry once where the researchers wanted to make a molecule but it just wouldn’t happen. So they instead made it with a radioactive isotope of a heavier element, then as it decays the molecule becomes their desired product.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_technique