Submitted by not_natty t3_11obz62 in askscience
For example, the half life of Y-90 is nearly 1/4000th that of Sr-90, would the same quantity of Y-90 have a radioactivity in Bqs nearly 4000 times that of the same quantity of Sr-90?
Submitted by not_natty t3_11obz62 in askscience
For example, the half life of Y-90 is nearly 1/4000th that of Sr-90, would the same quantity of Y-90 have a radioactivity in Bqs nearly 4000 times that of the same quantity of Sr-90?
michal_hanu_la t1_jbsq458 wrote
For samples with the same number of atoms (and undergoing the same type of decay) yes.
The activity means the number of times an atom decays per unit of time and the half-life is the time in which half of the atoms in a sample decay.