Is there any way to determine if a substance is radioactive and if so, is there any way to determine in what form the radiation will appear, like β- or α-radiation? For example, if I am making a decay chain, is there any way to determine if the daughter isotope is radioactive without searching for information on the internet (or testing it, of course)?
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Well https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/486883/can-quantum-theory-predict-the-radioactive-properties-of-given-element ought to be a duplicate, but doesn't have any answers, but https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/177002/can-we-predict-the-half-lives-of-radioactive-isotopes-from-theory is clearly related. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Aug 27 '19 at 19:59