Question 1 · 1 mark · Foundation · Practical · Diagnostic
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Measuring radioactive half-life
Measure the background count, then count a protactinium generator with a GM tube in ten-second windows and find the half-life from a graph of ln(corrected count rate) against time.
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Question 2 · 3 marks · Standard · Practical · Practical method