The half-life for radioactive decay (a first-order process) of plutonium-239 is 24,000 years.How many years would it take for one mole of this radioactive material to decay so that just one atom remains?
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the answer is 1.9x10^6 but i had to use an ***-backwards way to figure it out. i don't know how to use any formula for this sorry
You could mathematically work out how long it would take to decay down to one atom - in reality though Heisenbergs uncertainty prinicple would come into play - the T1/2 of an element is an average and applies to the element as a whole and not to each individual atom