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Published on: September 12, 2026
Some nuclei of a radioactive material are undergoing radioactive decay. The time gap between the instances when a quarter of the nuclei have decayed and when half of the nuclei have decayed is given as:(where 
is the decay constant)
A
B
C
D
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D
….(i)
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