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Decay-In-Storage
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- Subject: Decay-In-Storage
- From: William Lorenzen <LORENZEN_W@A1.TCH.Harvard.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:22:09 -0400 (EDT)
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A related question I have asked before and not had answered is why
is it 10 half-lives? Why not 8 or 12?
Does anyone know how this "standard" decay time was determined?
William A. Lorenzen
Children's Hospital
Boston, MA 02115
lorenzen_w@a1.tch.harvard.edu
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