Suppose isotope A decays to isotope B with a decay constant A , and isotope B

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Suppose isotope A decays to isotope B with a decay constant λA, and isotope B in turn decays with a decay constant λB. Suppose a sample contains, at t = 0, only isotope A. Derive an expression for the time at which the number of isotope B nuclei will be a maximum.

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