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Tritium has a half-life of 12.3 years. A sealed sample initially holds 8.0mg of tritium. Taking decay as the only loss, find the mass of tritium left after 40 years, in mg, to two decimal places.
Numerical answer type, answer in mg, tolerance 0.02.
Answer: 0.84 mg
Number of half-lives =40/12.3=3.252. Mass left =8.0×2−3.252=0.84mg.