Cobalt-60, which undergoes beta decay, has a half-life of 5.26 yr.    If you start with 2.44 g of Cobalt-60, how many beta particles are emitted in 125 days?

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Q: Radon-220 undergoes alpha decay with a half-life of 55.6 s. Assumethere are 16,000 atoms present…

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Q: 137 Cs has a half-life of 30.2 years. How many years will it take for a 100.0-g sample to decay to…

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Q: Uranium-240 has a half-life of 14.1 hours (note this is NOT a fissionable isotope).  A country with…

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Q: A rock found in the Australian Outback contains 438 g of Pb-206 for every 1.00 g of U-238. How old…

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Q: A radioactive isotope has a half-life of 12.0 seconds. How much of a 100 gram sample is left after…

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Q: Suppose an iron-58 nuclide transforms into an iron-59 nuclide by absorbing a neutron. Complete the…

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Q: Strontium-90, a beta emitter, has a half-life of 28.1 yr. If 38.9 mg of ⁹0Sr were incorporated into…

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Q: 3. The isotope of iodine with mass number 128 undergoes beta decay with a half-life of 32 minutes.…

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Q: One of the nuclides in spent nuclear fuel is U-235 an alpha emitter with a half-life of 703 million…

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Q: The Cs-131 nuclide has a half-life of 30 years. After 120 years, 5.2 g remain. What is the original…

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Q: Based on nuclear stability, what is the symbol for the most likely product nuclide when carbon-10…

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Q: The Cs-131 nuclide has a half-life of 30 years. After 120 years, 3.3 g remain. What is the original…

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Q: A radioactive sample contains 2.90 gg of an isotope with a half-life of 3.8 days How much of the…

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Q: The radioactive substance neptunium -139 decays to 72.85% of its original amount after 28 hours. How…

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Q: lodine-125 is a radioactive isotope commonly used in medicine. It has a half-life of 59.5 days. A…

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Q: PET studies require fluorine-18, which is produced in a cyclotron and decays with a half-life of…

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Q: Cobalt-60 has a half-life of 5.27 years.  Considering a piece of that radioactive material, which…

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Q: The half-life of radon-222 is 3.8 days. How much of a 100 gram sample is left after 15.2 days?

A: Half life is the time taken by the original compound to reduce to it's half.

Q: Use the above information to answer the following questions. 1. Remains of an ancient caveman are…

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Q: The isotope Np-238 has a half life of 2.0 days. If 96 grams of it were present on Monday, how much…

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Q: Cobalt-58 which is radioactive, has a half-life of 71 days. How

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Writing and Balancing Nuclear Equations

A nuclear equation is a symbolic representation of a nuclear reaction using certain symbols. It is studied in nuclear chemistry and nuclear physics.