Question: A . Polonium - 2 1 4 has a half - life of 1 6 4 s . In 1 ms , how many half

A. Polonium-214 has a half-life of 164 s. In 1 ms, how many half-lives will have passed? B. If we start with 10,000 atoms of Polonium, how many will we have left at the end of 1 ms? C. If each Polonium-214 decay occurs by the emission of a 5 MeV alpha particle, what is the total energy released via all the alpha particles in 1 ms? Give your answer in MeV. (Hint: What you calculated in Part B is the number of atoms remaining, not the number of atoms that decayed.) D. If the biologically safe amount of energy absorption is 25 MeV per minute, is Polonium safe to be around? a. Yes b. No

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