Thursday, January 5, 2012

Question about alpha decay and half-life of Uranium?

Natural uranium is a mixture of U-238 and U-235. The half-life for alpha emission from U-238 is 4.5x109 years and the half-life for alpha emission from U-235 is 7x108 years. How long ago were the amounts of the two isotopes the same?

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