system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Are compounds that contain radioactive elements also radioactive?

Asked another way: is radioactivity affected by the fact that the radionuclide is bound with other atoms in a compound?
gpt
There are obscure corner cases where chemistry influences radioactivity (largely when electron capture is the only option), but generally: Radioactivity is not affected. Radioactive decays happen in the nucleus, what happens around it doesn't matter.