Madame Curie filled glass vials with pure radon, produced by her radium, for use in hos- pitals. Radon has a short half-life of 3.8 days. Suppose that she put 1 MBq of radon in a vial. i) Label the axes with appropriate numbers and units. Mark on the graph the half-life Sketch a graph of the activity of the radon over the next week or two. and the characteristic time. ii) lives of 20 minutes and less) before reaching a relatively stable isotope of lead. Ap- proximately what activity will the vial have two or three hours after filling, and about two weeks after filling? Radon decays through a chain of four very short-lived radionuclides (half-

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Madame Curie filled glass vials with pure radon, produced by her radium, for use in hos-
pitals. Radon has a short half-life of 3.8 days. Suppose that she put 1 MBq of radon in a
vial.
i)
Label the axes with appropriate numbers and units. Mark on the graph the half-life
and the characteristic time.
Sketch a graph of the activity of the radon over the next week or two.
ii)
lives of 20 minutes and less) before reaching a relatively stable isotope of lead. Ap-
proximately what activity will the vial have two or three hours after filling, and about
two weeks after filling?
Radon decays through a chain of four very short-lived radionuclides (half-
Transcribed Image Text:c) Madame Curie filled glass vials with pure radon, produced by her radium, for use in hos- pitals. Radon has a short half-life of 3.8 days. Suppose that she put 1 MBq of radon in a vial. i) Label the axes with appropriate numbers and units. Mark on the graph the half-life and the characteristic time. Sketch a graph of the activity of the radon over the next week or two. ii) lives of 20 minutes and less) before reaching a relatively stable isotope of lead. Ap- proximately what activity will the vial have two or three hours after filling, and about two weeks after filling? Radon decays through a chain of four very short-lived radionuclides (half-
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