4) What will be the decay constant for radon with a half-life of 3.82 days?

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4) What will be the decay constant for radon with a half-life of 3.82 days?
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Concept and Principle:
  • Most of the heavy nuclei will undergo decay to become stable by reducing the number of neutrons or protons. The rate at which unstable radioactive nuclei decay in a sample of material is called the activity of the sample.

 

  • The decay probability per nucleus per second is called the decay constant it is given by,

λ=0.693t12

Here t1/2 is known as the half-life of the nucleus. It is the time that it takes for the activity to be reduced by half.

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