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How is the initial activity rate of a radioactive substance related to its half-life? Continue to post
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The activity is proportional to magnitude of the decay rate which is given as

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Here is activity, is number of nuclei lost due to decay in time interval , is

number of original nuclei in a substance and is decay constant.

Initial activity is defined as

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The above expression written as

The above expression is integrate,

Now, substitute the value of and in above expression.

 The half- life of radioactive a substance, time required for half of initial concentration to decay of
radioactive substance then,

At time ,

Substitute the value of and in above expression

Now the value is then

Here is half –life of substance.

Hence, the half-life and initial activity of nuclei of an atom do not depend on each other.

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