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Calculate the mass of a sample of an initially pure radionuclide with mass number 32. Its initial decay rate is 1.56 × 105 disintegrations/s and it has a half-life of 1.38 x 10⁹ y.

Calculate the mass of a sample of an initially pure radionuclide with mass number 32. Its initial decay rate is 1.56 × 105 disintegrations/s and it has a half-life of 1.38 x 10⁹ y.

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Calculate the mass of a sample of an initially pure radionuclide with mass number 32. Its initial decay rate is 1.56 × 105 disintegrations/s and it has a half-life of 1.38 x 10⁹ y.
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