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Given initially 40 mg of radium-226 (one of the decay products of uranium-238), determine...

Given initially 40 mg of radium-226 (one of the decay products of uranium-238), determine (a) the amount that will be left after 500 yr, (b) the number of a particles the radium will have emitted during this time, and (c) the amount of kinetic energy that will have been released, (d) Find the decay rate of the radium at the end of the 500 yr.

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