Plutonium has a half-life of 23105 years. What percentage of a sample of Plutonium has decayed after 10000 years?

Lewis Harvey

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2021-05-03

Plutonium has a half-life of 23105 years. What percentage of a sample of Plutonium has decayed after 10000 years?

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Theodore Schwartz

Theodore Schwartz

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Plutonium has a half-life of 23,105 years. What percentage of a sample of Plutonium has decayed after 10,000 years?
Use the half-life formula:
N=N0(12)tthalflife
Substitute t=10,000 years and thalf-life =23,105t:
N=N0(1/2)10000/23105
N0.74N0
This means that 74% of the sample remained. Hence, 26% of the sample of Plutonium decayed.

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