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Transcribed Image Text:2) The first atomic explosion was detonated in the desert
north of Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945.
What fraction of the strontium-90 (t1/2 = 28.8 yr) origi-
nally produced by that explosion still remains as of July
16, 2008?
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