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Offline billsauce

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What is the rate constant when 2.00 g plutonium-239 produces 4.69E9 beta particl
« on: May 26, 2012, 03:30:47 PM »
What is the rate constant when 2.00 g plutonium-239 produces 4.69E9 beta particles/min?

ok i think im a little confused because of how easy it might be...is the answer just 4.69E9?
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Re: What is the rate constant when 2.00 g plutonium-239 produces 4.69E9 beta particl
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2012, 06:13:09 PM »
Quote from: billsauce on May 26, 2012, 03:30:47 PM
What is the rate constant when 2.00 g plutonium-239 produces 4.69E9 beta particles/min?

ok i think im a little confused because of how easy it might be...is the answer just 4.69E9?

Possibly. But you need units as well
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Re: What is the rate constant when 2.00 g plutonium-239 produces 4.69E9 beta particl
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2012, 10:49:53 PM »
Or maybe the 4.69e9 could indicate how much of the plutonium is decaying?
So perhaps you could figure out how much plutonium is left after X minutes by subtracting moles of beta particles from moles of Pu, plug everything into the first order equation and solve for k.
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