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∙ 12y ago1mg. If the half life is 24 minutes then in 48 minutes the sample would decay twice. After one half life the mass would halve (to 2mg) and after the second it would have again (to 1mg).
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1/8th of a mg. You lose half every three hours.
After 3 half-lives, half of the original sample would remain unchanged. After the 1st half-life: 300 unchanged atoms. After the 2nd half-life: 150 unchanged atoms. After the 3rd half-life: 75 unchanged atoms would remain.
After 132 hours, 1/4 of the initial sample of 10 Ci of Mo-99 would remain. Since the half-life is 66 hours, after 66 hours half of the sample would remain (5 Ci), and after another 66 hours (totaling 132 hours), half of that remaining amount would be left.
1mg. If the half life is 24 minutes then in 48 minutes the sample would decay twice. After one half life the mass would halve (to 2mg) and after the second it would have again (to 1mg).
After 48 minutes, two half-lives have passed for Cu-60 (24 min * 2 = 48 min). Each half-life reduces the amount of Cu-60 by half, so after 48 minutes, only 1/4 of the original 4 mg sample would remain, which is 1 mg.
If the substance has a half-life of 10 years, there would be 10 half-lives in a 100-year span. Each half-life reduces the amount by half, so after 100 years, 1/2^10 = 1/1024 grams of the sample would remain.
You must know the half life of Caesium to calculate this.
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Approximately 400 grams of the potassium-40 sample will remain after 3.91 years, as potassium-40 has a half-life of around 1.25 billion years. This means that half of the initial sample would have decayed by that time.
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