Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
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Chapter 32 - Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Radiation - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 1153: 38

Answer

$0.92mg$

Work Step by Step

We can find the mass of the isotope as follows: $\lambda=\frac{\ln 2}{T_{\frac{1}{2}}}$ $\lambda=\frac{\ln 2}{2.70 d}=0.256d^{-1}$ We know that $N=\frac{R}{\lambda}$ $\implies N=\frac{225 Ci}{0.2567d^{-1}}(\frac{86,400s}{d})(\frac{3.7\times 10^{10}s^{-1}}{1Ci})=2.8\times 10{18}$ Now we can find the mass as follows: $m=M\frac{N}{N_A}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $m=(198g)\frac{2.80\times 10^{18}}{6.022\times 10^{23}}=0.92mg$
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