General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry
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Chapter 11.4, Problem 3QQ
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After four half-lives, the amount of decayed sample of the radioactive sample has to be chosen from the given options.
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Radioactive nuclides undergo disintegration by emission of radiation. All the radioactive nuclide do not undergo the decay at a same rate. Some decay rapidly and others decay very slowly. The nuclear stability can be quantitatively expressed by using the half-life.
The time required for half quantity of the radioactive substance to undergo decay is known as half-life. It is represented as
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