Half life Flashcards by Chloe walsh

Q

What is a half-life

A

is the time taken for half the nuclei in a radioactive substance to decay

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what is a radioisotope

A

Atoms that have an unstable nuclei

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what does transmutation mean

A

when an atom chaanges into another element during nuclei decay

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