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What do we call the amount of time it will take for half of the radioactive material to decay?

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What do we call the amount of time it will take for half of the radioactive material to decay?

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one half-life

The measure of how quickly a nucleus decays is given by the half-life of the nucleus. One half-life is the amount of time it will take for half of the radioactive material to decay.

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