Hydrogen-4
Hydrogen-4 is a highly unstable isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus consists of a proton and three neutrons. It has been synthesised in the laboratory by bombarding tritium with fast-moving deuterium nuclei (see this article). In this experiment, the tritium nuclei captured neutrons from the fast-moving deuterium nucleus. The presence of the hydrogen-4 was deduced by detecting the emitted protons. Its atomic weight is 4.0279121. It decays through neutron emission and has a half-life of 9.93696x10-23seconds.
Quadium
In the 1955 satirical novel The Mouse That Roared, the name quadium was given to the hydrogen-4 isotope that powered the Q-bomb that the Duchy of Grand Fenwick captured from the United States.
| Hydrogen-3 | Isotopes of Hydrogen | Hydrogen-5 |
| Produced from: None | Decay chain | Decays to: Hydrogen-3 |
Categories: Chemical isotope