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How many decay product atoms will be present in the rightmost sample, after two half-lives have passed?

How many decay product atoms will be present in the rightmost sample, after two half-example-1
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Since Half-life has to do with the decay of half of the amount of an atom, after two half-lives, we will end up with 2 of quantity of Hg-207, since we have started with 8 particles, and after one half-life we will have 4, therefore the last one will have only 2 particles of Hg-207

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