Radioactive radon occurs naturally as a product of uranium decay. The half life is 3 days. Suppose a flask originally contained 0.00000000000030 atoms of 222Rn. How many atoms will remain after 30 days?

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Radioactive radon occurs naturally as a product of uranium decay. The half life is 3 days. Suppose a flask originally contained 0.00000000000030 atoms of 222Rn. How many atoms will remain after 30 days?
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To determine the number of atoms remaining after 30 days we will use the Half-life Formula that is,

N=N12TT12here,N=Remaining atomsN=Initial number of atomsT=Elapsed timeT12=Half life of the substance.

Given:

Half life (T12)=3 daysElapsed time (T)=30 daysInitial number of atoms (N)=3×1013

Here in this is question Initial number of atoms is given to be 0.00000000000030 that is 3×10-13 atoms which is not possible thus there is a mistake in the question the number of atom should be 3×1013 atoms

 

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