Example 3 - A sample to be used for medical imaging is labeled with 18F, which has a half-life of 110. minutes. What percentage of the original activity in the sample remains after 300 minutes?

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Q: Technetium-99m, a metastable state of technetium-99 commonly used in nuclear medicine, has a…

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Q: The half-lives of different medical radioisotopes are given in the table. If the initial amount of…

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Q: If a tree dies and the trunk remains undisturbed for 1.155 x 104 years, what percentage of the…

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Q: Iron-59 is a radioisotope that is used to evaluate bone marrow function. What is the half-life of…

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Q: A sample of sodium-24 chloride contains 0.050 mg of Na-34. After 20.7 h, 0.019 mg of Na-34 is left.…

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Q: Carbon 14 dating assumes that the carbon dioxide on Earth today has the same radioactive content as…

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Q: Americium-241 is widely used in smoke detectors. Calculate the amount of americium-241 consumed in a…

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Q: the half life of radioactive element unobtanium-37 is 10 seconds. If 80 grams of unobtanium-37 are…

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Q: The carbon-14 activity of some ancient Peruvian corn was found to be 10 disintegrations per minute…

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Q: 1. How many half-lives have passed for Pb-210 after 89.2 years? _____ half-lives (HL)  2. How much…

A: The given radioactive element is Pb-210, any radioactive element is unstable and hence undergoes…

Q: If a tree dies and the trunk remains undisturbed for 1.770 × 10⁴ years, what percentage of the…

A: The objective of this question is to find out the percentage of the original 14C (Carbon-14) that is…

Q: One of the radioactive isotopes used in medical treatment or analysis is phosphorus-32. The…

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Q: half-life of carbon-14, 14C, is approximately 5,730 years. A bone fragment is estimated to have…

A: The half-life of carbon-14, 14C, is approximately 5,730 years. A bone fragment is estimated to have…

Q: The first-order decay of radon has a half-life of 3.823 days.  How many grams of radon decomposes…

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Q: Radioisotope X has a half-life of 4.0 h. Based on the figure below, if the original sample of the…

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Q: 1. A lab tech prepares 50.0 mg of I-123 on Tuesday, how many mg will remain 39 hours later if the…

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Q: Sodium-24 is used to treat leukemia and has a half-life of 15 hours. A patient was injected with a…

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Q: How many half-lives have passed for Polonium-218 after 9.15 minutes? _____ half-lives (HL)  2. How…

A: The isotope given is Polonium-218. Half life of Polonium-218 isotope is 3.10 min

Q: A piece of fossilized wood has a carbon-14 radioactivity that is 1/4 that of new wood. The half-life…

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Q: The half-life of 14C is 5730 years. A sample contains 92.4% of the 14C it would contain if it were…

A: The age of the old fossils can be find out by using carbon dating method.  So the amount of 14C…

Q: The first-order decay of radon has a half-life of 3.823 days.  How many grams of radon decomposes…

A: Given  Half life ( t1/2 ) = 3.823 days  Time ( t )          = 5.55 day  Initial Amount ( A0 )   = 80…

Q: Iodine-131 is used in the treatment of thyroid disease. What is the half-life of iodine-131 if a…

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Q: Iron-59 is a radioisotope that is used to evaluate bone marrow function. The half-life of iron-59 is…

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Q: Element X has a half-life of 6 hours. How much of X remains from a 64kg sample after one day?

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Q: A wooden artifact emits 11.1 beta particles per minute via the radioactive decay of ¹4C: 14 14 0 C…

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Q: Decide whether each of the following statements makes sense (or is clearly true) or does not make…

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Q: (5) The half life of sodium-24, which diminishes by first order radioactive decay, is 15.0 hours. A…

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Q: If a tree dies and the trunk remains undisturbed for 1.305 × 104 years, what percentage of the…

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Q: If a tree dies and the trunk remains undisturbed for 1.775 × 10⁴ years, what percentage of the…

A: Given-> Half life = 5730 year  Time = 1.775 × 104 year.

Q: If a tree dies and the trunk remains undisturbed for 1.690 × 10⁴ years, what percentage of the…

A: If a tree dies and the trunk remains undisturbed for 1.690 × 10⁴ years, what percentage of the…

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.