Half-life is measured by
Geiger-Muller counter
Carbon dating
Spectroscopic method
Wilson-Cloud chamber
A piece of wood from a recently cut tree shows $20\,decays$ per minute. A wooden piece of same size placed in a museum ( obtained from a tree cut many years back) shows $2\,decays$ per minute. If half life of $C^{14}$ is $5730\, years$, then age of the wooden piece placed in the museum is approximately ........... $years$
Radioactive nuclei that are injected into a patient collect at certain sites within its body, undergoing radioactive decay and emitting electromagnetic radiation. These radiations can then be recorded by a detector. This procedure provides an important diagnostic tool called
$99\%$ of a radioactive element will decay between
The nuclear activity of a radioactive element becomes $\left(\frac{1}{8}\right)^{\text {th }}$ of its initial value in $30\, years.$ The half-life of radioactive element is $....\,years.$
Consider a radioactive material of half-life $1.0 \, minute$. If one of the nuclei decays now, the next one will decay