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43) It takes 10 minutes for the concentration of a radioactive species to decay to its 1/4th value
of its original concentration. What is the rate constant of this radioactive decay reaction?
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415.8 5-1
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865.8 s-1
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0.00231 s-1
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0.0011555-1
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Answered by mayadevi12388
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Answered by Anonymous
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Another approach to describing reaction rates is based on the time required for the concentration of a reactant to decrease to one-half its initial value. This period of time is called the half-life of the reaction, written as t1/2. Thus the half-life of a reaction is the time required for the reactant concentration to decrease from [A]0 to [A]0/2. If two reactions have the same order, the faster reaction will have a shorter half-life, and the slower reaction will have a longer half-life.

The half-life of a first-order reaction under a given set of reaction conditions is a constant. This is not true for zeroth- and second-order reactions. The half-life of a first-order reaction is independent of the concentration of the reactants. This becomes evident when we rearrange the integrated rate law for a first-order reaction (Equation 14.21) to produce the following equation:

ln[A]0[A]=kt(1)

Substituting [A]0/2 for [A] and t1/2 for t (to indicate a half-life) into Equation  1  gives

ln[A]0[A]0/2=ln2=kt1/2(2)

Substituting  ln2≈0.693  into the equation results in the expression for the half-life of a first-order reaction:

t1/2=0.693k(3)

Thus, for a first-order reaction, each successive half-life is the same length of time, as shown in Figure  1 , and is independent of [A].

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Figure  1 : The Half-Life of a First-Order Reaction. This plot shows the concentration of the reactant in a first-order reaction as a function of time and identifies a series of half-lives, intervals in which the reactant concentration decreases by a factor of 2. In a first-order reaction, every half-life is the same length of time.

If we know the rate constant for a first-order reaction, then we can use half-lives to predict how much time is needed for the reaction to reach a certain percent completion.

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