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February 27th: Riddle #2

katerinabiryukova
Feb 27
1 min read

Updated: Sep 13

Guess the element and the isotope!

*isotope - a version of an element with specific mass number


Resource: shutterstock.
Resource: shutterstock.

I am very rare😱, about one part in trillion atoms of my element.

(Almost like 1 second in 31,500 years!)


I am radioactiveā˜¢ļø, though small.


I am found in all living organisms, which, while alive, keep my proportion within them the samešŸ’šŸŸšŸ¦….


When they die, I start to dwindle away🫄.


Sharp-witted humans learnt to count me upšŸ˜Ž, and now they can discern the age of anything that was once alivešŸ•°ļø.


What am I?šŸ¤”


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