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Half-life Chemistry Problem?

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The half-life of 216Po is 0.16 s. How long will it take to reduce its concentration to the negligible amount of 0.001% of its original concentration?

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  • KennyB
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
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    Lets see - 0.16 seconds to get to 50%; 0.32 seconds to get to 25% and so on - I get 17 half lives to drop below 0.001. So, 2.7 seconds

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