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Describe how the concept of half-life for nuclear decay is used.

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Half life decay is used in order to relate time and concentration change

it is a convinient 50% change, since it marks the time reuqired to get halved

The typical formual used:

Afinal = Ainitial * (1/2)^(time/Half life)

we can always get half life given:

Afinal/Ainitial = (1/2)^(time/Half life)

if Afinal /Ainitial = 0.5, then

time = half life

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