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3 years ago

If you had started with a larger mass, how would the half-life change?

Physics

1 answer:

iogann1982 [59]3 years ago

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Answer:

There is no change, unless your mass is somehow at the quantum level, at which the concept of half-life breaks down.

Half life is a property of the specific radioactive isotope...NOT of the initial sample's mass.

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