Macmillan Learning The half-lives of different radioisotopes are given in the table. Half-life (min) Radioisotope argon-44 lead-196 time: potassium-44 indium-117 12 37 22 43 How long would it take, in minutes, for the amount of lead-196 to decrease from 64.0 mg to 8.00 mg? min

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