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Isomeric states
Isomeric states are the long-lived excited states of a nuclide (also called the metastable states). They decay to lower energy states of the nuclide through two isomeric transitions:
- γ (gamma) emission (emission of a high-energy photon)
- internal conversion (the energy is used to ionize the atom)
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