What Property of Half-Lives Makes Radioactive Material So Problematic

question 73

Multiple Choice

What property of half-lives makes radioactive material so problematic?

• A)There is no known way to shorten a half-life.
• B)Radioactivity is limited by the natural decay-time to stable isotopes.
• C)All half-lives are long.
• D)There is no known way to measure half-lives with any accuracy.
• E)both A and B

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