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robot_egg t1_jbyywyg wrote

Reply to comment by loci_existentiae in How do the physical properties of the isotope Iron-54 differ from the more common Iron-56? by Colonel__Kernel

I'm an organic chemist, not a metallurgist. I believe that conductivity and magnetism would be the same, but it's a little outside my wheelhouse.

You're not going to find pure Fe-54 or -56 in nature. They'll be mixed in more or less the natural abundance ratio anywhere you find iron. It's certainly possible to separate them; much easier than enriching uranium.

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