what is half life??????
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The atomic nuclei of atoms of Half Life radioactive substances continues to decay, resulting in the number of united atoms in substances continuously decreasing.
A fixed period of time in which the quantity of any radioactive substance, reduces the number of atoms, half of its initial value, is called semi-age of that substance. Display it with 'T'
For a radioactive element, the value of semi-age remains fixed, but its value varies for different radioactive elements. If a radioactive substance is semi-age of T then after T time, half the quantity of the substance, 2T times after the fourth quantity of the substance, and 3T 'after time, 1/8 of the substance remains unaltered.
Semi-age of natural radioactive substances and its isotopes can be from a few milliseconds to hundreds of millions of years. For example, the semi-age of isotopic () of polonium is only seconds, while semi-age of uranium ( ) is 4. 5 * 10^7 years. .