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At 6:00 AM a hospital uses its cyclotron to make 1 milligram of the isotope fluorine-18 for use as a diagnostic tool with its PET scanner. The half-life of F-l 8 is 1.8 hours. How much F-l8 is left at 3:00 PM? At midnight? Should the hospital plan to make more F-l8 the next morning?

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