[OneWingedShark]

Interesting.

The 40-second half-life would make it difficult to work with; but I find myself wondering what would happen in a fullerene that enclosed such an atom. {Encapsulating radioactive atoms with Carbon fullerenes has been proposed as a method to reduce their impact on the environment and make radioactive wastes easier to handle.} Would the enclosing carbon-bonds work to “hold the Tin together” for more than the 40 seconds, or would the Tin despise being bound and decay anyway?

(I’m a Computer Science guy, not a Chemist so I have no idea what would actually happen.)

[decimon]

“Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t, didn’t already have”

Other than that, I don’t know.

[AdmSmith]

Would the enclosing carbon-bonds work to “hold the Tin together” for more than the 40 seconds, or would the Tin despise being bound and decay anyway?

A carbon-carbon bond has an energy of a few eV and the energy released in a nuclear decay is million times larger, so do not expect any change.