Half-life · decay curve

Decay law: N = N₀·(½)^(t/T). After each half-life T half of the nuclei remain. The dashed horizontal line = half of N₀.
Radioactive decay is governed by the decay law:
where is the initial number of nuclei, is the half-life (the time after which half of the nuclei decay), and is time. After each half remains: after one , after two , after three …
Enter , and (in the same time units) — the calculator finds the number and percentage of remaining nuclei and draws the decay curve.
The time after which half of the radioactive nuclei decay. It is constant for a given isotope — independent of how many nuclei are left.
After about 10 half-lives less than 0.1% of the nuclei remain. Decay is exponential — it never reaches exactly zero.
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