Answer to Question #89975 in General Chemistry for John Dodds

Question #89975
Describe how the concept of half-life for nuclear decay is used.
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2019-05-21T05:55:26-0400

Half-life is the time required for a quantity to reduce to half its initial value. The term is commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo, or how long stable atoms survive, radioactive decay. The converse of half-life is doubling time.


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