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4.3 Hazards and uses of radioactive emissions and of background radiation

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Radioactive isotopes have a very wide range of half-life values. Which list gives four half-lives in order from the shortest to the longest?

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8 days, 5 seconds, 30 years, 4500 million years

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5 seconds, 30 years, 8 days, 4500 million years

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5 seconds, 8 days, 30 years, 4500 million years

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4500 million years, 30 years, 8 days, 5 seconds

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4.3 Hazards and uses of radioactive emissions and of background radiation Questions

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  2. /Physics
  3. /4.3 Hazards and uses of radioactive emissions and of background radiation

40 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Physics 4.3 Hazards and uses of radioactive emissions and of background radiation, covering 4.3.1 Background radiation, 4.3.2 Different half-lives of radioactive isotopes, and 4.3.3 Uses of nuclear radiation. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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