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Chemistry, 29.07.2019 16:30 hollandhogenson

Americium-241 is used in smoke detectors. it has a first order rate constant for radioactive decay of k=1.6×10−3yr−1. by contrast, iodine-125, which is used to test for thyroid functioning, has a rate constant for radioactive decay of k= 0.011 day−1.

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