The table shows the amount of radioactive element remaining in a sample over a period of time.

Radioactive Decay Rate
Amount of Radioactive Sample
(grams) Time
(hours)
186.0 0
147.0 7
117.0 14
93.0 21
23.3 63

Part 1: What is the half-life of the element? Explain how you determined this.
Part 2: How long would it take 320 g of the sample to decay to 2.5 grams? Show your work or explain your answer.

in 1783 cavendish was working with his hydrogen gas and found that when he burned it and condensed the vapor it was water. this was very significant since it disproved the greek theory of elements completely since water was not a simple substance but the product of two gases. it was lavoisier who hearing of the experiment gave cavendish's gas the name hydrogen ("water-producer") and added that hydrogen burned by combining with oxygen and that water was a hydrogen-oxygen combination.

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