Help with Radioactive Decay

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A radioactive isotope has an exponential decay as pictured in the above plot of sample amount vs time. From the graph, estimate the half-life of the isotope.

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A radioactive isotope has a half-life of days. If a chemist has a sample of , how long will it take until there is of the sample?

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What is the cause for radioactive decay?

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What kind of radiation has no charge or mass?

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What is the relationship between neutrons and protons of nuclides with respect to zone of stability?

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Fluorine-18 is a radioactive isotope of fluorine that is used in medical imaging scans. It has a half-life of approximately 110 minutes.

If a patient has a medical imaging scan using an injection of fluorine-18 at 9am, at what time will there be less than 25% of the radioactive isotope in her body?

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Technetium-99 is used in hospitals and has a very short half-life of about . If a lab receives of Technetium-99, how much of the sample will remain after ?

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Which type of radioactive decay does not emit any physical matter?

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The half-life of a certain isotope is 20min. How long will it take for 1g of the isotope to decay to 0.25g?

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Which of the following is not a type of nuclear particle involved in radioactive decay?

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