Radon is a naturally occurring, inert, radioactive gas, derived from naturally occurring uranium deposits in the earth. It is colorless, odorless, and tasteless
Radon-222 is the environmentally important form or radon. Radon-222 is a decay product of uranium-238 and is the immediate daughter of radium-226. It has a physical half-life of 3.82 days.
Radon-222 decays by alpha emission into several short-lived daughters, most notably polonium-218 and polonium-214, which have half-lives of 3.1 minutes...
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