Sometimes a radioactive nucleus decays into a nucleus which itself is radioactive. An example is : Assume that we start with 1000 38 S nuclei at time t = 0. The number of 38 Cl is of count zero at t = 0 and will again be zero at t = ∞, At w

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Sometimes a radioactive nucleus decays into a nucleus which itself is radioactive. An example is : Assume that we start with 1000 38 S nuclei at time t = 0. The number of 38 Cl is of count zero at t = 0 and will again be zero at t = ∞, At what value of t would the number of counts be a maximum?

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Sometimes a radioactive nucleus decays into a nucleus which itself is radioactive. An example is : Assume that we start with 1000 38 S nuclei at time t = 0. The number of 38 Cl is of count zero at t = 0 and will again be zero at t = ∞, At what value of t would the number of counts be a maximum?

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