Lanie Killay
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Half life of radium?
Decay constant is 1600/ln(2) years, i.e. 2308 years. This is the time required for the original amount to decay to 1/e of that amount. The equation is R(t) = R0 exp(-t/2308), where t is in years and R0 is the original amount (i.e., 70 grams).
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