What is half life decay?

Daphne Haney

Daphne Haney

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2022-05-07

What is half life decay?

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Kaylin Barry

Kaylin Barry

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Imagine 1 kg of Plutonium-244. Plutonium 244 is a radioactive isotope of Plutonium and has a half-life of 80.8 million years. Again, half-life is the amount of time required to reduce the mass of a particular substance by half. Thus, after 80.8 million years, the mass of our original substance would reduce to 0.5 kg. This is due to the fact that the particles of the substance dissipate or decay into energy such as gamma rays.

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