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A piece of wood from the ruins of an ancient building was found to have a $^{14}C$ activity of $12$ disintegrations per minute per gram of its carbon content. The $^{14}C$ activity of the living wood is $16$ disintegrations per minute per gram. How long ago did the tree, from which the wooden sample came, die? Given half-life of $^{14}C$ is $5760$ years.
In the uranium radioactive series, the initial nucleus is $_{92}{U^{238}}$ and the final nucleus is $_{82}P{b^{206}}$. When the uranium nucleus decays to lead, the number of $\alpha - $ particles emitted will be
Half life period of a sample is $15$ years. How long will it take to decay $96.875\%$ of sample .......... $years$
The mean life of a radioactive material for alpha decay and beta decay are, respectively, $1620$ years and $520$ years. What is the half life of the sample (in years) ?
In saloons, there is always a characteristics smell due to the ammonia-based chemicals used in hair dyes and other products. Assume the initial concentration of ammonia molecules to be $1000 \,molecules/ m ^3$. Due to air ventilation, the number of molecules leaving in one minute is one tenth of the molecules present at the start of that minute. How long will it take for the concentration of ammonia molecules to reach $1 \,molecule / m ^3$ ?