Americium-241 is used in smoke detectors. It has a
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Americium-241 is used in smoke detectors. It has a firstorder rate constant for radioactive decay of k = 1.6 * 10-3 yr -1 . By contrast, iodine-125, which is used to test for thyroid functioning, has a rate constant for radioactive decay of k = 0.011 day-1 . (a) What are the half-lives of these two isotopes? (b) Which one decays at a faster rate? (c) How much of a 1.00-mg sample of each isotope remains after 3 half-lives? (d) How much of a 1.00-mg sample of each isotope remains after 4 days?
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