To: BlackJack
Shorter half-life means a higher decay probability, and thus more activity for a given mass of material. Short-lived forms are “hotter”, from a radiological viewpoint.
35 posted on
06/15/2007 12:13:33 PM PDT by
chimera
To: chimera
Thanks will look into that.
37 posted on
06/15/2007 12:16:58 PM PDT by
BlackJack
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