<u>Answer:</u> The amount remained after 151 seconds are 0.041 moles
<u>Explanation:</u>
All the radioactive reactions follows first order kinetics.
Rate law expression for first order kinetics is given by the equation:
where,
k = rate constant =
t = time taken for decay process = 151 sec
= initial amount of the reactant = 0.085 moles
[A] = amount left after decay process = ?
Putting values in above equation, we get:
Hence, the amount remained after 151 seconds are 0.041 moles
Answer:
8.625 grams of a 150 g sample of Thorium-234 would be left after 120.5 days
Explanation:
The nuclear half life represents the time taken for the initial amount of sample to reduce into half of its mass.
We have given that the half life of thorium-234 is 24.1 days. Then it takes 24.1 days for a Thorium-234 sample to reduced to half of its initial amount.
Initial amount of Thorium-234 available as per the question is 150 grams
So now we start with 150 grams of Thorium-234
So after 120.5 days the amount of sample that remains is 8.625g
In simpler way , we can use the below formula to find the sample left
Where
is the initial sample amount
n = the number of half-lives that pass in a given period of time.