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It's a single isotope, nickel-63, which decays into regular copper-63. The amount of nickel halves every 96 years. If you throw it in a fire, you'll disperse
by p1mrx 3y ago
It's a single isotope, nickel-63, which decays into regular copper-63. The amount of nickel halves every 96 years.
If you throw it in a fire, you'll disperse nickel-63 into the environment, which isn't good, but the decay process is unaffected.
- Fatnino 3y agoI've seen it said that it takes 10 halflives for something to decay all the way away. So like 1000 years for this to flush itself.
- jbboehr 3y ago> I've seen it said You can estimate it yourself: 0.5 ^ 10 = 0.0009765625 (~0.1%) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life#Probabilistic_nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life#Probabilistic_nature > When there are many identical atoms decaying, the law of large numbers suggests that it is a very good approximation to say that half of the atoms remain after one half-life