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First Order Half Life

Q. Americium-241 is used in smoke detectors. It has a first-order rate constant for the radioactive decay of k = 1.6x10-3 yr-1. By contrast, iodine-12...

Solved • Feb 10, 2021

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Q. Americium-241 is used in smoke detectors. It has a first-order rate constant for the radioactive decay of k = 1.6x10-3 yr-1. By contrast, iodine-12...

Solved • Feb 8, 2021

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Q. The amount of carbon-14 present after t years is given by the exponential equation At = A0ekt, with k=- ln2/5600. Using carbon-14 dating of charcoa...

Solved • Feb 1, 2021

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Q. Consider the first-order reaction described by the equation cyclopropane propeneAt a certain temperature, the rate constant for this reaction is 5....

Solved • Oct 19, 2020

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Q. The nuclide 96Nb decays by a first-order process with a rate constant of 2.96×10–2 min-1. How long will it take for 26.0% of the initial amount of ...

Solved • Feb 17, 2020

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Q. The half-life of N2O5 (g) at a 25 °C is 4.03 x 104 s. a) Find the rate constant (k) for the first-order decomposition of N2O5 (g) at 25 °C.

Solved • Jan 20, 2020

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Q. Nuclear decay is a first-order kinetic process. Therefore, If N0 nuclei are present at time t = 0, the number remaining at time t is given by the e...

Solved • Jan 6, 2020

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Q. Nuclear decay is a first-order kinetic process. Therefore, If N0 nuclei are present at time t = 0, the number remaining at time t is given by the e...

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Q. A sample containing a radioactive isotope produces 2000 counts per minute in a Geiger counter. After 120 hours, the sample produces 250 counts per ...

Solved • Dec 20, 2019

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Q. An artifact showed a carbon-14 decay rate of 13.8 disintegrations/min per gram of carbon. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5715 years, and currently...

Solved • Dec 19, 2019

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Q. The half-life of cesium-130 is 15 minutes. What percentage of the initial activity will be present after 75 minutes, assuming radioactive decay occ...

Solved • Dec 19, 2019

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Q. 210Pb has a half-life of 22.3 years and decays to produce 206Hg. If you start with 7.50 g of 210Pb, how many grams of 206Hg will you have after 17....

Solved • Dec 19, 2019

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Q. Strontium-90 is a byproduct in nuclear reactors fueled by the radioisotope uranium-235. The of is 28.8 yr. What percentage of a strontium-90 sample...

Solved • Dec 19, 2019

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Q. The half-life for beta decay of strontium-90 is 28.8 years. A milk sample is found to contain 10.3 ppm strontium-90. How many years would pass befo...

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Q. The half-life of 222Rn is 3.80 days. If a sample contains 36.0 g of Rn-222, how many years will it take for the sample to be reduced to 1.00 mg of ...

Solved • Dec 18, 2019

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Q. The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years. If a sample initially contains 2.67 mg carbon-14, what mass remains in the sample after 2.40 ξ 104 years?...

Solved • Dec 18, 2019

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Q. If a log contains 60.0% of the 14C present in a living tree, how long (yr) has the log been dead? The half-life of 14C is 5715 years. Enter your an...

Solved • Dec 18, 2019

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Q. Lead-200 has a half-life of 21.50 hours. Starting with 3.770 mg of this isotope, how much would remain after 72.0 hours?a. 1.09b. 0.10c. 1.29d. 2.9...

Solved • Dec 17, 2019

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Q. Am95241 is used in many home smoke alarms. If 85% of the americium in a smoke detector decays in 1250 years, what is the half-life of this isotope?...

Solved • Dec 16, 2019

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Q. In how many days will a sample of polonium 210 with a half-life of 138 days decay to one-fourth of the original amount?

Solved • Sep 4, 2019

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Q. If a fossil bone is found to contain an eighth as much as C-14 as the bone of a living animal, what is the approximate age of the fossil? (Half-lif...

Solved • Sep 4, 2019

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Q. Analysis of a quartz crystal shows it to contain 25% Uranium 235 and 75% Lead 207. If the half life of Uranium 235 is 704 million years how old is...

Solved • Aug 27, 2019

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Q. The curve to the right shows the radioactive decay of a particular sample of a nucleus called Element A. A particular nucleus survives for the firs...

Solved • Aug 27, 2019

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Q. The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the amount of time it takes for a quantity of that isotope to decay to one half of its original value. (a...

Solved • Aug 6, 2019

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Q. Cesium-137, a component of radioactive waste, has a half-life of 30.2 yr. If a sample of waste has an initial activity of 15.0 Ci due to cesium-137...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. It takes 4 h 39 min for a 2.00-mg sample of radium-230 to decay to 0.25 mg.What is the half-life of radium-230?

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Cobalt-60 is a strong gamma emitter that has a half-life of 5.26 yr. The cobalt-60 in a radiotherapy unit must be replaced when its radioactivity f...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Tests on human subjects in Boston in 1965 and 1966, following the era of atomic bomb testing, revealed average quantities of about 2 pCi of plutoni...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. A 55.0 mg sample of sodium perchlorate contains radioactive chlorine-36 (whose atomic mass is 36.0 amu).If 29.6% of the chlorine atoms in the sampl...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. The synthetic radioisotope technetium-99, which decays by beta emission, is the most widely used isotope in nuclear medicine. The following data we...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Cobalt-60, which undergoes beta decay, has a half-life of 5.26 yr.How many beta particles are emitted in 205 s by a 3.55 mg sample of 60Co?

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. The cloth shroud from around a mummy is found to have a 14C activity of 9.8 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon as compared with living o...

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Q. A wooden artifact from a Chinese temple has a 14C activity of 37.6 counts per minute as compared with an activity of 58.2 counts per minute for a s...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Potassium-40 decays to argon-40 with a half-life of 1.27 x 109 yr.You may want to reference (Pages 913 - 916)Section 21.4 while completing this pro...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Radium-226, which undergoes alpha decay, has a half-life of 1600 yr.How many alpha particles are emitted in 5.00 min by a 10.0 mg sample of 226Ra?

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Decay of a 10.0-g sample of strontium-90 (t1/2 = 28.8 yr).The 10 ximes 10 grids show how much of the radioactive isotope remains aftervarious amoun...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Plutonium-236 is an alpha emitter with a half-life of 2.86 years. How long will it take for the 1.30 mg sample of Pu-236 to decay to 0.160 mg?

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. A researcher claims that an ancient scroll originated from Greek scholars in about 500 B.C. Its Carbon-14 decay rate is 92% of that found in living...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. A researcher claims that an ancient scroll originated from Greek scholars in about 500 B.C. Its Carbon-14 decay rate is 92% of that found in living...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. The contents of a rock have a 206Pb to 238U mass ratio of 0.165:1.00. Assuming that the rock did not contain any 206Pb at the time of its formation...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Bismuth-210 is beta emitter with a half-life of 5.0 days. If a sample contains 1.3 g of Bi-210 (atomic mass = 209.984105 amu), how many beta emissi...

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Q. Polonium-218 is an alpha emitter with a half-life of 3.0 minutes. If a sample contains 56 mg of Po-218 (atomic mass = 218.008965 amu), how many alp...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. The half-life of 232Th is 1.4 x 1010 yr. Find the number of disintegrations per hour emitted by 1.0 mol of 232Th. (Note: 1 year = 365.24 days)

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. A patient is given 0.055 µg of technetium-99m, a radioactive isotope with a half-life of about 6.0 hours. How long does it take for the radioactive...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. At 8:00 A.M., a patient receives a 2.5 µg dose of I-131 to treat thyroid cancer. If the nuclide has a half-life of eight days, what mass of the nuc...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Suppose a person ingests equal amounts of two nuclides, both of which are beta emitters (of roughly equal energy). Nuclide A has a half-life of 8.5...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Iron-59 is a beta emitter with a half-life of 44.5 days. If a sample initially contains 164 mg of iron-59, how much iron-59 is left in the sample a...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Suppose that an 90.0-gram laboratory animal ingested 12.0 mg of a substance that contained 2.60% by mass Pu-239, an alpha emitter with a half-life ...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Approximately how many half-lives must pass for the amount of radioactivity in a substance to decrease to below 1% of its initial level?

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. The half-life of 238U is 4.5 x 109 yr. A sample of rock of mass 1.7 g is found to produce 30 dis/s. Assuming all the radioactivity is due to 238U, ...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. A sample of F-18 has an initial decay rate of 1.6×105 /s .How long will it take for the decay rate to fall to 2.6×103 /s ? (F-18 has a half-life of...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. A sample of Tl-201 has an initial decay rate of 5.88×104 /s .How long will it take for the decay rate to fall to 303 /s ? (Tl-201 has a half-life o...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. A wooden boat discovered just south of the Great Pyramid in Egypt has a carbon-14/carbon-12 ratio that is 73.0% of that found in living organisms.H...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Consider this graph representing the decay of a radioactive nuclide.What is the half-life of the nuclide?

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. A rock that contains 3.1×10−15 mol of 232Th (t1/2 = 1.4×1010 yr) has 9.5×104 fission tracks, each track representing the fission of one atom of 232...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. A rock contains 270 μmol of 238U (t1/2 = 4.5×109 yr) and 110 μmol of 206Pb. Assuming that all the 206Pb comes from decay of the 238U, estimate the ...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. The half-life of radium-226 is 1.60×103 yr. How many hours will it take for a 2.50-g sample to decay to the point where 0.185 g of the isotope rema...

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. The isotope 21283Bi has a half-life of 1.01 yr. What mass (in mg) of a 2.00-mg sample will remain after 3.75×103 h?

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. If 6.40×10−9 mol of 176W emits 1.07×1015 β+ particles in 1.00 h, what is the decay constant?

Solved • Jan 8, 2019

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Q. Given specimens uranium-232 (t 1/2 = 68.9 y) and uranium-233 (t 1/2 = 159,200 y) of equal mass, which one would have greater activity and why?

Solved • Dec 12, 2018

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Q. Technetium-99m has a half-life of 6.01 hours. If a patient injected with technetium-99m is safe to leave the hospital once 75% of the dose has deca...

Solved • Dec 12, 2018

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Q. Plutonium was detected in trace amounts in natural uranium deposits by Glenn Seaborg and his associates in 1941. They proposed that the source of t...

Solved • Dec 11, 2018

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Q. A sample of rock was found to contain 8.23 mg of rubidium-87 and 0.47 mg of strontium-87.(a) Calculate the age of the rock if the half-life of the ...

Solved • Dec 11, 2018

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Q. The isotope 9038 Sr is one of the extremely hazardous species in the residues from nuclear power generation. The strontium in a 0.500-g sample dim...

Solved • Dec 11, 2018

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Q. The isotope 208Tl undergoes β decay with a half-life of 3.1 min.(c) What percentage of a sample of pure 208Tl remains un-decayed after 1.0 h?

Solved • Dec 11, 2018

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Q. The isotope 208Tl undergoes β decay with a half-life of 3.1 min.(b) How long will it take for 99.0% of a sample of pure 208Tl to decay?

Solved • Dec 11, 2018

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Q. 239Pu is a nuclear waste byproduct with a half-life of 24,000 y. What fraction of the 239Pu present today will be present in 1000 y?

Solved • Dec 11, 2018

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Q. Rubidium-87 decays by β-particle production to strontium-87 with a half-life of 4.7 x 1010 years. What is the age of a rock sample that contains 10...

Solved • Dec 6, 2018

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Q. A certain radioactive nuclide has a half-life of 3.00 hours.b. Calculate the decay rate in decays/s for 1.000 mole of this nuclide.

Solved • Dec 6, 2018

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Q. Define “third-life” in a similar way to “half-life,” and determine the “third-life” for a nuclide that has a half-life of 31.4 years.

Solved • Dec 6, 2018

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Q. At a flea market, you’ve found a very interesting painting done in the style of Rembrandt’s “dark period” (1642–1672). You suspect that you really ...

Solved • Dec 6, 2018

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Q. Americium-241 is used in smoke detectors. It has a first order rate constant for radioactive decay of k = 1.6 10–3 yr–1. By contrast, iodine-125, w...

Solved • Dec 6, 2018

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Q. The images shown here depict the first-order reaction A → B at various times during the reaction process. The black circles represent reactant A an...

Solved • Dec 6, 2018

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Q. The half-life for the radioactive decay of U-238 is 4.5 billion years and is independent of initial concentration.If a sample of U-238 initially co...

Solved • Dec 6, 2018

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Q. A rock contains 0.688 mg 206Pb for every 1.000 mg 238U present. Assuming that no lead was originally present, that all the 206Pb formed over the ...

Solved • Dec 5, 2018

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Q. The bromine-82 nucleus has a half-life of 1.0 X 10 3 min. If you wanted 1.0 g 82Br and the delivery time was 3.0 days, what mass of NaBr should yo...

Solved • Dec 5, 2018

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Q. Phosphorus-32 is a commonly used radioactive nuclide in biochemical research, particularly in studies of nucleic acids. The half-life of phosphorus...

Solved • Dec 5, 2018

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Q. The curie (Ci) is a commonly used unit for measuring nuclear radioactivity: 1 curie of radiation is equal to 3.7 X 1010 decay events per second (th...

Solved • Dec 5, 2018

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Q. A chemist wishing to do an experiment requiring 47Ca2+ (half-life = 4.5 days) needs 5.0 ug of the nuclide. What mass of 47CaCO3 must be ordered if...

Solved • Dec 5, 2018

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Q. Radioactive copper-64 decays with a half-life of 12.8 days.b. A sample contains 28.0 mg 64Cu. How many decay events will be produced in the first s...

Solved • Dec 5, 2018

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Q. The rate constant for a certain radioactive nuclide is 1.0 X 10 -3 h-1. What is the half-life of this nuclide?

Solved • Dec 5, 2018

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Q. What is the half-life of an isotope that decays to 12.5% of its original activity in 48.3 hours?

Solved • Oct 23, 2018

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Q. The usefulness of radiocarbon dating is limited to objects no older than 50,000 yr. What percent of the carbon-14, originally present in a 8.0-g sa...

Solved • Oct 4, 2018

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Q. Be sure to answer all parts.Archeologists can determine the age of artifacts made of wood or bone by measuring the amount of the radioactive isotop...

Solved • Sep 13, 2018

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Q. Be sure to answer all parts.The radioactive potassium-40 isotope decays to argon-40 with a half-life of 1.2 x 109 years. (a) Write a balanced equat...

Solved • Aug 29, 2018

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Q. Enter your answer in the provided box.Strontium-90 is one of the products of the fission of uranium-235. This strontium isotope is radioactive, wit...

Solved • Aug 29, 2018

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Q. Enter your answer in the provided box.What would be the 14C activity in a 2400-year old wooden object? Assume that the 14C activity of an equal mas...

Solved • Aug 29, 2018

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Q. Be sure to answer all parts.A freshly isolated sample of 90Y was found to have an activity of 1.9 x 105 disintegrations per minute at 1: 00 p.m. o...

Solved • Aug 29, 2018

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Q. Be sure to answer all parts.The radioactive decay of thallium-206 to lead-206 has a half-life of 4.20 min. Starting with 4.70 x 1022 atoms of thall...

Solved • Aug 29, 2018

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Q. Enter your answer in the provided box.A rock sample originally contains 4.78 mg of 238U. How much 206Pb will be in the rock sample when it is 1.7 ...

Solved • Aug 29, 2018

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Q. Be sure to answer all parts.Determine the age of rock that contains 31.4 mg of 238U and 2.77 mg of 206Pb. (t1/2 of 238U = 4.51 x 109 yr). Enter ...

Solved • Aug 29, 2018

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Q. Rate Constant for a First-Order Decomposition Reaction Be sure to answer all parts.In a first-order decomposition reaction, 50.0% of a compound dec...

Solved • Aug 29, 2018

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Q. What is the half-life of an isotope that decays to 12.5% of its original activity in 56.6 hours?

Solved • Aug 28, 2018

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Q. A sample of F-18 has an initial decay rate of 1.2 x 105/s. Part AHow long does it take for the decay rate to fall to 1.1 x 102/s? (F-18 has a half-...

Solved • Aug 22, 2018

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Q. The halt-lives of different medical radioisotopes are given in the table below. If the initial amount of chromium-51 is 133 mCi, how much chromium-...

Solved • Aug 20, 2018

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Q. Sodium-24 has a half-life of 14.8 hours. How much of a 751.1 mg sodium-24 sample will remain after 3.7 days?

Solved • Aug 20, 2018

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Q. The half-life of Chromium-51 is 28 days. Starting with an original sample size of 12.0μg, calculate the number of days it will take for the radioac...

Solved • Aug 20, 2018

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Q. What is the half-life of an isotope that decays to 3.125% of its original activity in 57.8 hours?

Solved • Jul 31, 2018

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Q. Provided in the table below are two isotopes and their corresponding half-life periods. Which isotope decays the fastest and which isotope is the m...

Solved • Jul 30, 2018

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Q. Consider comparing the two Phosphorous radionuclides given below and their corresponding half-life periods. Which statement below is true? a. Phosp...

Solved • Jul 30, 2018

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