input: Please answer the following: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The isotope is unstable - The isotope emits radiation - The isotope decays - The isotope loses some atomic particles - The isotope turns into a different element - The isotope is finished decaying and emitting radiation.
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output: An isotope has too many protons

Please answer this: What is the missing first step of the following process: - Magma crystalizes - Lava cools on the surface - Lava crystalizes - Minerals dissolved in water crystlize.
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Answer: Magma cools inside the crust

Problem: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The sediment breaks down into small particles - Wind or water picks up the sediment - The sediment travels along the same route as the wind or water - The sediment is deposited at new locations by the wind or water - The sediment is picked up again by new wind or water - The sediment travels further - The sediment is deposited again in a new place.

A: Sediment settles in a place due to gravity

Problem: Given the question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The water will turn into water vapor - Collect the water vapor - Allow the water vapor to cool - The water vapor will turn into liquid water - The salt will be separated from the water.
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The answer is:
Boil salt water

input question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - They are buried under layers of soil - Pressure builds over time - The remains liquefy - The carbon atoms rearrange to become a new substance.???
output answer: Plants and animals long ago died

input question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - A larvae matures inside of the egg - The caterpillar hatches from the egg - The caterpillar eats and grows - The caterpillar spins a coccoon around itself and forms into a pupa - The butterfly forms inside of the coccoon - The mature butterfly emerges from the coccoon - The butterfly mates - The female butterfly lays eggs.???
output answer:
A butterfly lays an egg