Friday, January 7, 2011

HALF-LIFE IMGS. (FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING)


 
Image 1 shows the Radioactive decay of C-14 (used in Carbon Dating). The image/graph denotes that the fraction of the element C-14 is INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL to the number of half-lives it underwent.


 


Image 2 shows how the undecayed element were "half-ed"/decreased as half-life occurs, hence the name "half-life". In every half-life of the element, the undecayed atom would decrease by half and after, by half and so on...

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