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After three half lives have passed how much of the original radioactive material will remaim?
After three half-lives, 12.5% of the original radioactive material will remain. Each half-life reduces the amount of material by half, so after three half-lives the remaining material will be 0.5^3 = 0.125 or 12.5%.
What percentage of a radioactive species would be found as daughter material after seven half lives?
The equation for half-life is AT = A0 2 (-T / H) where A0 is the starting activity, AT is the activity at some time T, and H is half-life in units of T. As a result, seven half-lives would be 2(-7) or 0.0078125 of the original activity.
When an atom undergoes radioactive decay when does it become a completely different element?
An atom of a given isotope will undergo radioactive decay whenever it feels like it. No joke. The nucleus of a radioactive isotope is unstable. Always. But that atom has no predictable moment of instability leading immediately to the decay event. We use something called a half life to estimate how long it will take for half a given quantity of an isotope to undergo radioactive decay until half the original amount is left, but this is a statistically calculated period. No one knows how long it will take a given atom of a radioactive isotope to decay, except that those with very short half lives will pretty much disappear relatively quickly.
How many years will it take for one half of the original amount of material to decay?
The time it takes for half of the original amount of material to decay is called the half-life. The number of years it takes for half of the material to decay depends on the specific radioactive element involved, as each element has its own unique half-life.
What is radioactive half life of an element?
The half-life of a radioactive element is the time required for one-half of the nuclei of a radioisotope sample to decay to products.Half-life (t½) is the time required for a quantity to fall to half its value as measured at the beginning of the time period.
After 6 half-lives What percentage of a radioactive sample remain?
After 6 half lives, the remaining will be (1/2)6 i.e 1/64 th of the initial amount. Hence by percentage it would be 1.5625 %
After three half-lives what fraction of a radioactive sample will remain?
Approx 1/8 will remain.
How much of the radioactive element will be left one billion years from now?
That depends on the "half-life" of that particular radioactive element, which the question forgot to state. They're all different. Various radioactive elements have half-lives ranging from microseconds to millions of years.
Which statement is true about half-lives a Different atoms of the same element have different half-lives. b Each radioactive isotope has its own half-life. c All radioactive nuclides of an element?
The correct answer is: Half-lives are not affected by temperature.
What is the percentage of radioactive nuclei left after 3 half-lives have passed?
12.5%
Is nobelium radioactive?
Yes, nobelium is radioactive. It is a synthetic element that does not occur naturally and is produced in laboratory settings. All isotopes of nobelium are radioactive and have short half-lives, making them highly unstable.
How can half lives be shortened?
Half life of an element can't be changed.. It is a characteristic of a radioactive element which is independent of chemical and physical conditions.. Half life is that time in which half of radioactive sample( i.e., a radioactive element) decomposes. So no matter what amount you take half life of an element remains same.
What fraction of a radioactive nuclei remain after p half lives?
The remainder is 2-p or 0.5p of the original amount.
What percentage of a radioactive element will be left after 1 half-life?
Half life is pretty much self explanatory in that after they go through 1 half life half of the radioactive decay remains. 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 1/8 = 0.125 = 12.5% or you can divide 100% by 2, 3 times and you'll get 12.5%
What element that has no stable isotopes?
Technetium (Tc) is the element that has no stable isotopes. All of its isotopes are radioactive with half-lives ranging from minutes to millions of years.
What fraction of a radioactive sample remains after three half-lives?
Not sure what you mean by "had-lives". After 3 half lives, approx 1/8 would remain.
How much parent material will be left after five half-lives?
Only 1/32 of the original radioactive material will remain. (½)5 = 1/32
