20 years
20 years (APEX)
A half-life of a radioisotope is the time required for half of a sample to decay. In this case, a 50-g sample becoming 25 g after 18 days indicates that the half-life of the radioisotope is 18 days, as the sample has decreased to half its original amount in that time.
The half-life of the radioisotope tritium (H-3) is about 12.32 years. This means that it takes approximately 12.32 years for half of a sample of tritium to decay into helium-3.
The half-life of a radioisotope is the time it takes for half of a sample to decay. In this case, a 20g sample reduces to 5g after 2 days, indicating it has gone through two half-lives (20g to 10g in the first half-life, and 10g to 5g in the second). Therefore, each half-life is 1 day. Thus, the half-life of the radioisotope is 1 day.
The half-life of the radioisotope Ba-137 is approximately 11.23 minutes. This means that it takes 11.23 minutes for half of a sample of Ba-137 to decay into a more stable element.
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20 years (APEX)
The half-life of the radioisotope is 9 years. This is calculated by determining the time it took for half of the original sample to decay. Since the sample went from 100g to 25g in 18 years, it lost 75g in that time period. After the first half-life, the sample would have 50g remaining, and after the second half-life, it would have 25g remaining.
The half-life of the radioisotope is 20 minutes. This means that in 20 minutes, half of the original sample (20g) remains. Therefore, if a 40g sample becomes 10g after 20 minutes, it has undergone 1 half-life.
16 hours.
16 hours.
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18 days
The half-life of the radioisotope tritium (H-3) is about 12.32 years. This means that it takes approximately 12.32 years for half of a sample of tritium to decay into helium-3.
16 hours.
It would be 20 years. That is the length of time to lose one half the isotope.
The half-life is 16 hours.