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A half-life is the time required for one half of the atoms of a radioactive substance to decay. Do these special type of atoms continue to decay until they become stable atoms and they do not give off energy anymore?

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Half-life, in radioactivity, the interval of time required for one-half of the atomic nuclei of a radioactive sample to decay (change spontaneously into other nuclear species by emitting particles and energy), or, equivalently, the time interval required for the number of disintegrations per second of a radioactive

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