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What term used to describe rate of radioactive isotopes?
Half-life (in units of time).Half-Life is the rate of radioactive decay, measured in time. The half life gives the time it take for half of the radioactive atoms in a system to decay. Fore example, if you have 10 grams of carbon-14, it will take 5730 years for half of it to decay, giving you 5 grams. In another 5730 years, you'll have 2.5 grams left, etc...Isotopes decay at an exponential rate. A half-life is the time that half of the population of an isotope will decay. The measure is a statistical probability and is more accurate when a large population is observed. The term half-life is applied to describe a property of a given isotope (i.e. the half-life of Carbon 14 is 5730).half life
In chemistry what is a half life?
The half-life of a quantity whose value decreases with time is the interval required for the quantity to decay to half of its initial value. The concept originated in describing how long it takes atoms to undergo radioactive decay but also applies in a wide variety of other situations.Half-lives are very often used to describe quantities undergoing exponential decay-for example radioactive decay-where the half-life is constant over the whole life of the decay, and is a characteristic unit (a natural unit of scale) for the exponential decay equation. However, a half-life can also be defined for non-exponential decay processes, although in these cases the half-life varies throughout the decay process. The converse for exponential growth is the doubling time.
What would not be a functional characteristic of life?
Decay
Is the half-life of a chemical element one-half of the amount of a radioactive element to decay?
The half-life is the time that it takes for 1/2 of a material to decay.
How old in years is a fossil sample that has 12.5 percent C-14?
The half-life of Carbon-14 is 5,730 years. As such for the carbon-14 to decay from 100% to 12.5% it would take three times the half-life of the material.100% (1st half life decay period) 50% (2nd half life decay period) 25% (3rd half life decay period) 12.5%.Therefore = 5730 x 3 = 17,190 years.
How forestry affects your daily life?
idk it just does
Examples of how air pressure affects daily life?
no...
How measurements affects your daily life?
measurements effect oyr daily life like an engineer is using many measuring instruments in his daily work.
How does music affects my daily life?
sometimes music gives me relaxation
How science affects us in daily life as a curse?
ball sac
How do science affects you?
Science affect you in every aspect of your daily life.
How does complete blindness affect a person daily life?
It affects ADL ie activities of daily living.
Does ethics focus on the way in which moral principles apply in daily life?
yes
How technology affects your daily living?
Well, In this more advanced life we all people became technology addicted. As we all know that in this time gadgets are everywhere. So, I believe that technology affects our daily living life.
How does research affect daily life?
Research affects daily life in many ways. It affects the medications that people take, the products that they use for personal hygiene, and the products that they clean with. Research enables people to know which products are safe for them.
How does commercialism affect daily lives?
It affects our daily life because we see it everywhere and it persuades us to do or buy things.
How does the religion of Muslims affects the daily life of the believer?
They have to pray five daily prayers and abstain from dishonest and sinful activity.
