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The half life of a radioactive isotope is the time taken for it to decay to half of its original amount of radioactivity. The specific activity is the activity per unit mass of a particular ...

To study the neutron-capture process in radionuclides (i.e., atoms with an unstable nucleus that undergo the radioactive decay process), the researchers developed a new methodology that allows ...