Nuclear Half-Life
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Nuclear Half-LifeQuestions
- How can you simulate radioactive half-life?
- How does radioactive decay relate to half-life?
- What is the radioactive half-life of carbon 14?
- Why is radioactive half-life important?
- What is the half-life of Uranium-238?
- How can we use the half-life of Carbon-14 to date things?
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- How much material will be left if a radioactive isotope has a half life of 1.3 billion years in 3.9 billion years?
- If a radioactive isotope has a half life of 1000 years how long does it take for 3/4 of the original sample to decompose?
- What is the half life of Uranium 234?
- What is nuclear waste half life?
- What is the exponential decay formula?
- What is the formula when two exponential-decay processes take place simultaneously?
- If carbon 14 has a half life of 5,730 years and a sample contains 70 mg originally, how much is left after 17,190 years?
- What are the formulas for half-life in exponential decay?
- What is the amount of time required for half of a sample of radioactive isotope to break down and form a daughter isotope?
- Why is radioactive decay measured in half-life instead of the full time?
- What radioactive isotope has a half life of 28million years?
- How can I calculate nuclear half life?
- How can radioactive half-life be used to date fossils?
- What is an example of an exponential decay practice problem?
- What are some common mistakes students make with exponential decay?
- The half-life of arsenic-81 is 33 seconds. Suppose you have 100 g - how much will remain undecayed after 12.5 days?
- If 2.60 g of Cobalt-60 (half-life = 5.30 y) are allowed to decay, how many grams would be left after 1.00 y and after 10.0 y?
- The longer the half-life, the more/less stable the nuclide?
- What is meant by the half-life of a radioactive isotope?
- An original sample of the radioisotope fluorine-21 had a mass of 80.0 milligrams. Only 20.0 milligrams of this original sample remain unchanged after 8.32 seconds. What is the half life of fluorine-21?
- What is half life decay?
- How can you model half life decay?
- How do you calculate half life decay?
- How is radioactive decay related to half life?
- How do you solve half life decay problems?
- How do you find radioactive decay half life?
- What is the half life decay rate formula?
- What is the half-life of Americium-242?
- How does the half-life of a nuclide relate to the stability of the nuclide?
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- What is a first order half life graph?
- What is an example first order half life problem?
- What are first order half life units?
- How do you find first order half life?
- What is first order half life derivation?
- What are some first order half life practice problems?
- How do you derive first order half life?
- What is the length of decay of carbon-14?
- The half-life of calcium-47 about 5 days. Starting with 64 g of this isotope, what would be the amount remaining after 20 days?
- If a Tadalafil 10 mg/tab has a typical half life of 17.5 hours, how long will it take until the blood concentration of this dosage falls to 25% of its initial strength?
- What is meant by the half life of a radioactive nuclide?
- What is the driving force behind the half life occurring?
- A rock sample contains 75 atoms of a parent isotope and 25 atoms of a daughter isotope. The half-life of the parent isotope is 100 years. How old is this rock?
- Radon-222 has a half-life of 92.hours. How long would it take for the activity of a sample of the gas to be reduced to about 3% of its initial value?
- The first-order decay of radon has a half-life of 3.823 days. How many grams of radon decompose after 5.55 days if the sample initially weighs 100.0 grams?
- How many days does it take for 16 g of palladium-103 to decay to 1.0 g?
- After 42 days a 2.0 g sample of phosphorus-32 contains only 0.25 g of the isotope. What is the half-life of phosphorus-32?
- If the half-life of uranium-232 is 70 years, how many half-lives will it take for 10 g of it to be reduced to 1.25 g?
- The half-life of strontium-90 is 25 years. How much strontium-90 will remain after 100 years if the initial amount is 4.0 g?
- If the mass of a radioactive substance is 8 grams and it has half life of 4 hours, how much mass remains after 8 hours?
- Phosphorus-32 is radioactive and has a half life of 14.3 days. How long would it take a sample to decay from 2.20 mg to 600 #mu#g?
- What is the time it takes for 50 percent of the nuclei in a radioactive sample to decay to its stable isotope called?
- A half-life of a radioactive substance is the amount of time needed for one half of what to decay into a stable isotope?
- What types of artifact are best dated with carbon-14 - a method called radiocarbon dating?
- The half life of thorium-227 is 18.72 days. How many days are required for 75% of a given amount to decay?
- Once a certain medicine is in the bloodstream, its half-life is 21 hours. How long will it be before an initial 30cc of the medicine has been reduced to 7cc?
- Can carbon-14 be used to determine the date of inorganic compounds?
- What is meant by half life?
- How long is the half life for C-14?
- After one half life, what fraction of the parent element has decayed to a daughter product?
- How do I know which materials are soluble in nitric acid?
- How is a radioactive element's rate of decay like the ticking of a clock?
- What is the time required for half of the nuclei of a radioactive isotope to decay called?
- Why is it important in carbon dating to consider the ratio of carbon-14 atoms to other carbon atoms, rather than only the number of carbon-14 atoms?
- Why does the ratio of carbon-14 to other carbon atoms remain constant while an organism is alive?
- Half-life is defined as the amount of time that it takes for radioactive substance to loose half its radioactivity. If a substance has a half life of 58 years and starts with 500 g radioactive, how much remains radioactive after 30 years?
- What is used to date rocks older than 10 million years and has half-life of isotope of 4.5 billion years?
- What is the time it takes for one-half of a radioactive sample to decay called?
- What is the time it takes for half of a radioactive sample to decay?
- What are Growth/Decay rates?
- How does carbon-14 form?
- If a radioactive material were cut into pieces, what would the half-life of each piece be?
- A chemical substance has a half life of 5 years. A chemist currently has 2000 grams of the substance. If the substance remains untouched, after 25 years, how much of the substance will be left?
- Isotope A has a half-life of seconds, and isotope B has a half-life of millions of years. Which isotope is more radioactive?
- An original sample of a radioisotope had a mass of 10 grams. After 2 days, 5 grams of the radioisotope remains unchanged. What is the half life of the radioisotope?
- How is the half-life of a radioactive material useful for radioactive dating?
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- An isotope has a half life of 90 days. How many days will it take for a 5 mg sample to decay to 1 mg?
- What is the half life and decay mode of Rn-222?
- What do we mean by half life? With what kinds of materials do we use this term?
- You are given 230 grams of a substance with a half-life of 0.75 years. How much will remain after 3 years?
- If the radon concentration has become 1/20th of what it started as, and its half-life is 3.8 days, what amount of time in days has passed?