The next two questions provide some more practice on calculations using half-lives. The isotope 64Cu has t1/2 of 12.7 hours. If the initial concentration of this isotope in an aqueous solution is 845 ppm, what will the abundance be after 4.00 hours? To solve this problem, first use equation (7) to determine k for 64Cu; then use this k value in equation (6) to obtain the amount of 64Cu, A, remaining after 4.00 hours if the amount present at the start, A0, is 845 ppm.

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).

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