Suppose we consider a large number of containers each containing initially 10000 atoms of a radioactive material with a half- life of 1 yr. After 1 yr:
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Radioactivity is a process due to which a radioactive material spontaneously decays. In half-life ( 
) of the material on the average half the number of atoms will decay.
Therefore, the containers will in general have different number of atoms of the material, but their average will be approximately 5000.
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