If you know that the natural element samarium (its mass number 146) contains the radioactive isotope samarium (mass number 147) with a rate of 15.1% that is dissolved by the dissolution of alpha particles. If you know that one gram of natural samarium gives 100 alpha decay every second, then the half-life of the radioactive samarium isotope in years is

If you know that the natural element samarium (its mass number 146) contains the radioactive isotope samarium (mass number 147) with a rate of 15.1% that is dissolved by the dissolution of alpha particles. If you know that one gram of natural samarium gives 100 alpha decay every second, then the half-life of the radioactive samarium isotope in years is

Inquiry into Physics

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Chapter11: Nuclear Physics

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