Sustainable Energy
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781337551663
Author: DUNLAP, Richard A.
Publisher: Cengage,
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Chapter 5, Problem 9P
At time t = 0 a sample contains 3.57 × 108 nuclei of a particular nuclide. Exactly one year later the sample contains 3.09 × 108 nuclei of the same species. Calculate the half-life of the decay.
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