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Starting from radium, the radioactive disintegration process terminates when the following is obtained:

A

lead

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radon

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radium

A

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radium

B

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Solution

The correct option is A lead
Radium belongs to $4 n + 2$ series. So end product will also belong to same series i.e $P b$

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