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42 .84, we have one milligram of radium 226.
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This has a half -life of 1 ,600 years for decaying into radon 222, which then has a much shorter half -life of about four days where it decays by an alpha emission.
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And so if you go on with this longer than, you know, considerably longer than the half -life of the radon, which doesn't take very long, comparatively speaking, because this is a huge difference in half -lives.
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The decay rate that the radon can have becomes limited to the decay rate of the radium because the radon basically decays as soon as it's produced compared to the rate at which the radium is decaying.
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And so if it can only decay when it's produced, and the fact that it would, you know, you'd only have a very small amount with this half -life producing the activity.
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And so the activity matches the radium more or less.
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And then this is basically constant.
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So under this limiting condition, we want to know, first of all, what is the activity of the radium? this is lambda times n...