Assertion: decay's life | /r/CapableOf | exceed about one nanosecond
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text: If the gamma-emission half-life exceeds about one nanosecond, the excited nucleus is said to be in a metastable, or isomeric, state (the names for a long-lived excited state), and it is customary to classify the decay as another type of radioactivity, an isomeric transition.