What best explains why sodium is more likely to react with another element than an element such as neon?
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Answer : Half life and radioactive decay are inversely proportional to each other.
Explanation :
The mathematic relationship between the half-life and radioactive decay :
................(1)
where,
N = number of radioactive atoms at time, t
= number of radioactive atoms at the beginning when time is zero
e = Euler's constant = 2.17828
t = time
= decay rate
when then the number of radioactive decay become half of the initial decay atom i.e
.
Now substituting these conditions in above equation (1), we get
By rearranging the terms, we get
Now taking natural log on both side,
By rearranging the terms, we get
This is the relationship between the half-life and radioactive decay.
Hence, from this we conclude that the Half life and radioactive decay are inversely proportional to each other. That means faster the decay, shorter the half-life.