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OpenStudy (anonymous):

if 1 kg of u-235 is put on a shelf in a laboratory, how much of it will be left after 700 million years?

OpenStudy (kfujioka):

Do you know the half-life of U-235?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

700 million years

OpenStudy (kfujioka):

And can you describe what "half-life" means?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I know what the half life is. It's the time it takes for exactly half an amount of a parent element to decay into a daughter element.

OpenStudy (kfujioka):

Right. So you should be able to answer you question.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

500g

OpenStudy (anonymous):

lol gebrish... kfujioka was working so hard to get to the answer.. and you just ruined it :X

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