Elements 85: Astatine is the thirtieth album in the series of music on the Elements, a very large work in progress consisting of electronically/digitally created architectural music compositions by Oscar van Dillen.

The cover art in the Elements series consists of color inverted pencil drawings made by the composer.

A word of warning: after careful listening, the world around you may not sound the same any longer.

The work on this album was conceived of, composed, created, recorded, post-produced and mastered April – May 2024.

All works, cover art and booklet of this album were created by Oscar van Dillen, additional images from Wikimedia Commons.

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Astatine is counted among the Halogens because of its structure and hence place in the Periodic Table. It is however a very unstable element, as its half-life is only 8.3 hours. Despite its instability, it is a naturally occurring element, and an estimated 100 grams is thought to exist on the entire planet earth at any given time, but as each of these atoms is short living, the atoms of the 100 grams will be distrinuted widely. Astatine comes from the natural radioactive decay of the elements Uranium and Thorium, which each are more abundant than Astatine.

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