Potassium-40 is a long-lived radioactive isotope with 19 protons and 21 neutrons. It can decay to calcium-40 through beta-minus decay, or to argon-40 through electron capture and a rare beta-plus decay. The argon-producing branch supports potassium-argon dating.
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