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An element has a half-life of 30 years. If 1.0 mg of this element decays over a period of 90 years, how many mg of this element would remain?

A 2.5 gram sample of a radioactive element was formed in a 1960 explosion of an atomic bomb at Johnson Island in the Pacific Test Site. The half-life of the radioactive element is 28 years. How much of this element will remain after 112 years?


An element has a half-life of 29 hours. If 100 mg of the element decays over a period of 58 hours, how many mg of the element will remain?

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Answer:

0.125mg

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An element has a half-life of 30 years. If 1.0 mg of this element decays over a period-example-1
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