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What is material half-life?
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Half-life is the time required for half of the atoms of a radioactive isotope to undergo decay. Some isotopes are very stable, undergo decay very slowly, and have extremely long half-lives.
Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4.46 billion years!
Other isotopes are extremely unstable, and have short half-lives. The isotope francium-233 has a half-life of 22 minutes. That means that if you possessed 10 grams of francium-233, after only 22 minutes you would have 5 grams of francium-233, while the remainder of the atoms would have been converted by some decay processes to other elements.
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http://www.sciencegeek.net/Chemistry/chempdfs/Halflife.pdf
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