Iodine 131 -> Xe 131 + e-
Never. As a simple exponential-decay problem, it can get as small as you want if you're willing to wait long enough, but it never reaches zero.
We know that iodine-131 will undergo beta minus decay, and an electron will appear as a result. (An electron antineutrino will also be produced, but we don't want to go there in this topic.)
The half life of Iodine-131 is 8.02 days, that means that say if you had 1 gram of 131I after approximately 8 days there would be only 0.5g left. The other half would have become Xenon-131. After 6 half lives (~48 days in your case) you would only have 1.6% of the original amount left.
The time required is 24.06 days. The half life of iodine 131 is 8.02 days.
Iodine-131 is a radioactive isotope of the element iodine.
The number 131 on the end shows us the mass of the isotope of iodineIf there are 53 protons, you need to take that away from the mass number to get the number of neutrons(Remember, electrons have such a small mass, we say that they have no mass at all, just to make it easier)131 - 53 = 78So the answer is A
Not plutonium, but iodine-131 !!The half life of 131I is 8,0197 days.
The thyroid gland is often imaged using a salt of iodine-131 as this gland has a high uptake of iodine.
Fission product xenon-131
Iodine 131 has a half-life of 8.0197 days. Barium has no half-life. So no, Iodine-131 is not more stable than barium-137.
Iodine-131 (not iodone) is a radioactive isotope of iodine: this isotope has important applications in the treatment of thyroid diseases.